Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon's Constellation had barely landed in sweltering Managua before Tacho wheeled him into the presidential palace to see an exhibit of arms; they were captured, said Tacho, from Costa Rican-based thugs sent to assassinate him last April. Vowed Tacho to accompanying newsmen: "I will not shake hands with the man who hired assassins to murder me and my family." Later, in private, Nixon tactfully persuaded Tacho to promise that there would be no further disturbances on the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican frontier...
TALK about selling America short! The prize exhibit on this score is the testimony of some of those who are opposing renewal of the Trade Agreements Act at the hearings before the Ways and Means Committee. To listen to these gentlemen, this country is just about washed up. Foreign competition has our boasted industry on the ropes, and the coup de grâce will be administered if Congress extends the act under which we negotiate tariff bargains with other nations. This sort of defeatism has been heard from other groups opposing the bill. To judge by such talk, this...
Author Bazin exhibits almost shockingly sharp insights into human nature and more sympathy for the human race than he has shown before. But he seems satisfied with a single tour through the market of humanity. Given the same characters and the same idea, Dostoevsky or Dickens would have turned them into a permanent exhibit of the human condition...
...exhibit came close to being a Who's Who of American painting, sweeping from Charles Willson Peale, the academy's founder, and Benjamin West (first honorary member) to the Maine water-colors of the late (1953) John Marin. Included were the works of such figures as George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt (only U.S. painter of the French impressionist movement), the meticulous realist William Harnett, and five artists of the famed "Ashcan School" of realism-Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and William Glackens. Before the exhibition was under way, the U.S. Information Agency began making plans...
Philosopher Russell's brand of logic is still interesting-an exhibit of a kind of world view that once seemed bold and Promethean. Today, while it still commands many followers, it seems to others as outmoded as bloomers...