Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro and the vote: the right to vote, like the ability to procreate, is too widespread now for the good of the country. There are already too many ignorant, misguided, impressionable, crackpot voters, as witness the representatives we choose to make our laws. One thing to our credit, however: we voters aren't to blame for foisting Chief Justice Warren on the country...
Plenty of Company. On the credit side that bill would 1) establish a federal civil rights commission with subpoena powers, 2) set up a special civil rights division in the Justice Department, and 3) enable the Government to seek injunctions on behalf of persons whose voting rights are violated. But having thus moved forward, the Senate bill rear-marched with amendments that 1) restricted enforcement only to voting cases, 2) extended the right of jury trials for the first time in U.S. history to all phases of criminal (but not civil) contempt of court...
...Sighed the Labor Minister: "He must settle-this crisis at any cost. If we allow Félix Gaillard to walk out, he will become the most popular man in France." In the end, Gaillard got his way. But by then, with France's reserves depleted and its credit exhausted, the franc had fallen to 436 to the dollar on the free market, the lowest in five years...
Schmidt deserves tremendous credit for his ability to take an anonymous group of 80 amateurs and mould them in only six weeks into a single responsive musical body that can hold its own in a community accustomed to the very best in choral singing...
Behind the new arrests, and proud to claim credit for them, is a fast-rising Hungarian quisling named Gyorgy Marosan. A flat-nosed, husky ex-baker who once served six years in jail himself for "Titoism," Marosan has now become "the visible one" of Russia's police state in Hungary.* Recently Marosan boasted to laborers at the Csepel metal works: "I am the one who on the night of Oct. 23-24 demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this...