Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Constitution." In developing this theme, Truman gave his successor some pointed advice. "Out of ... the political arena, a new and different President emerged-the man who led a political party to victory and retained in his hands the power of party leadership. That is, he retained it, like the sword...
¶For local reporting under "deadline pressure," the Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald (circ. 8,800). It won for its coverage of a tornado that struck Vicksburg (pop. 27,948) last December, killed 39, left 1,200 homeless and destroyed communications. Despite the destruction, City Editor Charles Faulk, 39, with...
¶ Greeted the annual convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with some confident words: "A long face never solved any difficult problem. As you approach [the problems of today] you must do so in the certainty that you are striving for the positive factors of happiness . . . and not in...
With his subject and presentation, Thomas was bound to run against comparisons with Wilder's Our Town. The telling difference between the two plays is stylistic. Wilder took very real people taking a plain, often drab language. He enobled the New Englanders by showing their stoic but feeling response to...
The loss of Dienbienphu, now under continual bombardment by the Vietminh troops, would not be a crucial military disaster for the anti-Communists, both men agreed. But, they said, it would be a serious psychological defeat for the French and Vietmanese.