Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels is a too-moderate course by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn took a new turn. Paul Butler phoned Sam Rayburn for an appointment, then jogged up to the Capitol and spent an hour in earnest conversation with Rayburn and Johnson. There was little doubt that his action was in the nature of a peace pilgrimage that included a single serving of crow for a strangely silent Paul Butler...
...opening night last Tuesday, most of the Tufts players seemed bent more on obscuring Betti's genius than on revealing it. Much of the trouble must no doubt be attributed to the inevitable pressures of summer stock on a small, young, and inexperienced company; the relentless demand for an entire new production each week cannot help but produce some shaky premieres, with cues missed and whole speeches being dropped right and left. One had the sense of watching a late rehearsal rather than an actual performance, in fact, and it is therefore particularly difficult to pass judgment...
Aside from U.S. victories in the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, Russia's swift and sturdy ladies took most of the scoring honors, 67 to 40. But in the men's events. U.S. domination was never in doubt. The Red team captured the high jump, a few more distance events and the decathlon. It could not match double U.S. wins in the 200-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter races, and a sweep of the relays as the American men ran off with the track meet by the score...
...road. Thanks to advances in general surgical techniques and patient care, it is now possible to remove huge masses of tissue, including whole organs and limbs. Hence the grim jest: "They put the specimen to bed and sent the patient to the laboratory." For some cancers there is no doubt that "radical" (meaning drastic and extensive) surgery has pro longed useful life. (The University of Minnesota's famed Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei's most productive years have followed removal of a lymphosarcoma and much related tissue...
...close down more industries. That would clearly be a national emergency, and reason for President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, seek a strike injunction that would bring the workers back to the plants for 80 days. Said Chairman Paul Carnahan of Great Lakes Steel Corp.: "I doubt that a settlement, when it comes, will originate with either management or the union. We will have to wait until an air of crisis begins to develop nationally...