Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like vacations." he confesses. "They bore me." The quite unique reason why he is bored by vacations: "They cost a hell of a lot of money, when you could be more comfortable at home and accomplish something. I'm past the age when I can enjoy looking at ruins." But Grammarian Evans will have one consolation on his trip. Says he: "I'm going to take along a pile of books...
Both John and Barbara enjoy reading, good conversation, sometimes go dancing with friends at the Army-Navy Country Club. No longer a tennis player, non-Smoker John** plays golf (his father bests him consistently), keeps a 15-ft. powerboat in Chesapeake Bay. Recently, John bought a small converted schoolhouse as a weekend refuge on the southwest edge of the Gettysburg farm, is paying his father for it in small, long-range monthly payments...
...onetime Vice President, and cue-bald Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 75. Bachelor (since a brief 1927 marriage) Rayburn, who squired the lady to Senator Lyndon Johnson's 49th birthday party last week, was not talking, but Jane Barkley was: "For heaven's sake! I enjoy his company immensely, and that's that...
...complete or coherent form, this view "is based upon our concept of freedom and opportunity for all, and upon our conviction that the individual must accept a large measure of responsibility for his own development and his own behavior. It accepts the principle of competition and the right to enjoy the fruits of individual accomplishment. It holds the state and the schools supported by the state responsible for assuring equal opportunity for the young, not for guaranteeing equality of ultimate achievement...
...purpose was to reduce the isolation of American youngsters living abroad. Commented Le Monde of Paris: "It seems a bit astonishing that the United States, which admits the necessity of extending into the cultural domain cooperation among allied countries in NATO, suppresses one of the rare means its citizens enjoy for getting to know the people among whom they find themselves." ¶ The Veterans Administration reported that the Korean G.I. bill, just five years old last week, has so far given nearly 2,000,000 out of 5,100,000 veterans of the Korean war either a high-school...