Word: ebb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Yale students up for The Game pronounced the name of the new theatre "Low-Ebb," but Yalies have no room to talk. At Yale there is only one undergraduate are producing organization, the Dreamt. There are no "outside" shows. The result is often productions technically superb and dramatically bland. Harvard drama in the past has successfully avoided this monolithic structure with its resulting inflexibility. Worthwhile productions have been staged in unlikely places through the intense efforts of a handful of interested students...
Through the long night and into the next day the U.S. watched the ebb and flow of the political tides until, with an almost imperceptible surge, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States...
...Republican claim that U.S. leadership had halted the march of Communism, he answered with the charge that too little had been achieved for the U.S. to feel safe, that cold-war initiative had been lost to the Soviets, and that as a result, U.S. prestige had dropped to low ebb. Against Republicans' warnings that a Democratic victory would bring a new wave of inflation and Government control, he preached a doctrine of strong federal action in the fields of education, economy, farm policy, housing, unemployment and welfare-promising price stability as well...
...TIME'S cover-ink supply at low ebb? Or was it the intention of Artist Artzybasheff to depict a mass of colorful individuals who, upon entering through college portals, are alchemized into a great grey glob of flannel-suited, conforming nonentities...
...work when strikes shut down vital parts plants in other states. Management complained that the ruling would oblige an employer to finance a strike against himself. Author of the majority opinion: Associate Justice George Edwards, 46, onetime (1938-39) U.A.W. director of welfare. * Despite their party's low ebb at home, a remarkable number of Michigan Republicans have been appointed to top jobs in the Eisenhower Administration. Among them: Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Flint Chevrolet dealer and ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee; Secretary of Defense (1953-57) Charles Wilson, ex-president of General Motors; Secretary of Commerce...