Word: dexterities
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...Coretta. "I had an awful stereotype in my mind." The suitor broke the stereotype: in June 1953, Coretta and King were married on the front lawn of her home in Marion, Ala. Just 15 months later they arrived in Montgomery to take up full-time pastoral duties at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and to assume the role for which, as if by guess and by God, he had been preparing all his life...
...brand names and well-advertised, full lines. When a customer buys a Philco refrigerator, he will have Philco in mind when shopping for a telvision set. Under Chairman William Balderston, Philco has been moving into full-line diversification, since 1949 has bought up the Electromaster Inc. range line, the Dexter Co. home-laundry line, will get still another new family of washers and Bendix...
...queen bee at Vassar ('22). She is no beauty, but to some masculine eyes she flashes with the radiance of a "Fourth-of-July sparkler." From Vassar. Maggie marches forth to conquer Broadway, and is so chagrined by her failure that she quickly settles for marriage to Dexter Bradfield, 6 ft. 2 of Harvard muscle and inarticulateness...
Eight years later. Maggie has a daughter and a surfeit of Dexter. Then she meets Ray Masters, a Manhattan adman turned novelist, whose "brown eyes, with their heavy lashes, looked almost boldly into Maggie's.'' Dexter takes the bad news like a true son of John Harvard, and, with her second husband. Maggie at last moves into the New York-Hollywood glamour spheres she always dreamed about. But Ray's reedlike pliancy proves as irritating as Dexter's rocklike immobility. The only way to achieve success, Maggie sees...
Having thus dragged his aromatic old red herring into the ring trailing the Hiss case behind it, Harry went on to assure Professor Bouscaren that neither Harry Dexter White nor Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, leaders of a Red cabal among federal employees during and after World War II, were spies. Said Truman: "Neither of them were guilty of anything...