Word: elegante
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then up rose a heavy-jawed, aging (61) and ailing man to answer the voice of India. Speaking badly but bluntly, "weaving no elegant web of words," Columbia-trained Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, nominal leader of India's 60 million Untouchables, challenged the man he once served as Minister...
But despite the wide use of official facts and figures-and the critical need for even more accurate measurements-Congress treats Government statistics like an unwelcome stepchild. The most pressing statistical needs now are new censuses of business, manufactures and mineral industries. All are old; the most recent-business-was...
In Washington, Cooper labors unsystematically but tirelessly seven days a week, on an average of eleven hours a day. He lives in the elegant Cosmos Club, and resolutely fends off hostesses, keeping his social engagements down to a maximum of three a week. As always, his office swarms with constituents...
In recent years the Dukes of Devonshire have been fighting a rearguard action against the welfare state. High death duties were making it difficult for them to bequeath their treasures intact to posterity. In 1926 the ninth Duke of Devonshire did what he could to preserve Chatsworth by turning the...
Quiet Question. All Arbenz' Communist support might do him little good, in a showdown, if his army deserted him. How stood the army? Arbenz had fattened it with increased pay and had given his officers elegant clubs and low-price commissaries. He had trimmed out the despised "line" (i.e...