Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physical training could be one of the easiest 'A' courses in the College," says Nathaniel A. Parker, assistant director of PT, "all one must do is attend classes three times a week...
Along the way they learned to live a life of simple utility. Nixon would shave his heavy, black beard close in the morning with a safety razor, then would slick up with his electric razor (if local voltage permitted) before dinner. Pat found it easiest to wash out her own nylons at overnight stops...
Except for the war-period, when the Russians reintroduced folklore into their literature to arouse national patriotism, this basic Socialist Realism, with its tedious patterns of thought, has persisted. The basic philosophy of the Soviet Union is utilitarian--a realistic novel is easiest to read, safest for propaganda, and therefore the best. The Soviet Union is afraid of thinking in contradiction to the regime. A James Joyce or Franz Kafka would be unknown in Russia today--he'd be too hard to read, besides being called "intellectual-bourgeois...
...Road to Riches. The lawyer's explanation was shocking and simple. He had run through his wife's fortune by heavy gambling losses. He needed money urgently, and he proposed to get it by the shortest and easiest road to riches: high government office...
Caught in legal crossfire from his two most recent wives, John Jacob Astor, 43, took the easiest way out. He conceded to the claim of wife No. 2, mousy blonde Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, that their Mexican divorce of last July was no good. This cleared the way for a Manhattan judge to hand Gertrude an easygoing stipend from Astor's easy-come $70 million-$2,500 a month, plus $7,500 for lawyers' fees. It also marooned Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued...