Word: digestible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans will not win in 1956. That would put you in a hell of a position. All we Democrats ask is fair treatment-equal treatment. We can lick the opposition with this. I don't give a damn that my subscription expires this month. I get the Democratic Digest, and that will well take up my time...
Shanghai is the biggest city a Communist regime has ever tried to digest. It has also proved the most indigestible. Tough, resilient, raised on the vigorous traditions of free enterprise, Shanghailanders made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...
...just before breakfast). Use of the oxygen tent was discontinued altogether. Ike listened to music by Bach, e.g., Air on the G String, Sheep May Safely Graze, which he had requested, and a pretty Army nurse, First Lieut. Lorraine P. Knox, read to him from the Reader's Digest. Mamie Eisenhower's bedside visits became longer and more frequent. The First Lady took her lunch in the President's room, and read selected news clips-mostly editorial comment about his illness. He was informed on the progress of the World Series, but showed little interest...
...first publisher-owned agencies for the distribution of magazines to newsstands. It was started by the Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc. and the Mc-Call Corp. The S-M stands for Science and McCall, and this name has not been changed even though the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Meredith Publishing Co. and Street & Smith Publications, Inc. have since joined the organization...
Encouraging examples of devotion to principle and knowledge working together were available at the University Pusey said. He cited particularly Dean Griswold's writings on the Fifth Amendment, a digest complied by Law School professors of principal judicial and administrative hearings involving the Communist Party, the work of the Russian Research Center, and the book written by Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, entitled "Communism, Conformity and Civil Liberties...