Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odds in his California gubernatorial campaign, said that the President and Adams "should carefully weigh as to whether Adams has so hurt his usefulness that it might be harmful." New Jersey's Robert Kean, Arizona's Barry Goldwater and Michigan's Charles Potter pounded the same drum: dump Sherman. Utah's venerable (72) Senator Arthur Watkins was the strongest voice of all. "In the light of the record as measured by the high standards of ethics set by both the President and Mr. Adams," said he, "there seems to be no other possible conclusion than that...
...Shuffle. When General William Booth launched a new era in evangelism 80 years ago with his drum-thumping, quasi-military corps, sin was conspicuous and shocking. A prostitute looking for a respectable job ran the risk of being thrown bodily out of her prospective employer's premises, with the chair on which she had been sitting thrown after her as too contaminated for decent people. Skirts were drawn aside from an unmarried mother, and curbstone drunks would crowd the Army's public meetings desperate for hope and help...
...thousands who eddy each day through the 470-acre exhibit-packed Brussels World's Fair, the U.S. Pavilion, with its open plaza, reflecting pool and splashing fountains, has become a star attraction. But what is inside the lofty, translucent drum designed by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, Cover, March 31) has become the subject of a running controversy, at home and abroad. Main reason is that the U.S., setting out to give its interpretation of a new humanism tailored to fit the Atomic Age, decided it could win more friends by using the soft sell. The result...
...teen-ager in Texas, John F. McMahon beat the drum and tootled the saxophone for the Volunteers of America, a U.S. offshoot of the Salvation Army that his father and mother had joined. Later he embarked on a promising career in an industrial catering business, but at 24 he decided that "there are things more important than money." He went back to the Volunteers...
...fast as adman and merchandiser. He needs both specialties now because the sweeping change in the U.S. food market has put almost 70% of grocery sales into the supermarkets, where General Foods must compete against the supermarkets' own private brands. To do it, General Foods beats the advertising drum heavily. Says Mortimer: "You have to sell your product before people get to the supermarket...