Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Eisenhower, 68, with a store of energy that now seemed inexhaustible, was out by 2 p.m. at Turnberry golf club to play 18 holes. "The old boy is looking well," said one member. "Oh, splendid." said another. The President asked his caddy, "Are you lucky?" "Yes, sir!" As a...
Economy Whisper. For six days Halleck worked to whip his forces into line. Absentees were summoned to Washington from as far away as Warsaw and Moscow (only authorized absentee: Washington's golfing, honeymooning Republican Jack Westland). For 35 Republicans who were doubtful, or definitely in favor of overriding, Halleck...
The complainants' case was simple enough. There was a 1933 hearse, for example, that the beatniks parked outside a nearby apartment house ("There are a lot of elderly people in that apartment building that don't feel very good anyway, and this bothered them"). A man declared that...
With wide-eyed envy, the first episode of Sweet Success reported the rise of Don Loper, a onetime ballet dancer, who gives up the stage for dress designing. To Producer Douglas, the critics' sneers seemed almost unAmerican. "Something's wrong in this country right now," says he. "With...
That truth is largely concerned with the growth to maturity of all the different people called "I," who live in a small, unnamed Southern town-and occasionally travel out from it. Their various roads to maturity are those of the whole world: love and labor, passion and violence are part...