Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point program (e.g., "bold" housing program, depressed areas bill) that included several items clearly beyond his legislative role and inside the executive area ("breathe life into the newly created space agency," "a consistent policy for Latin America"). He got off to a fast start on a quicker-than-the-eye maneuver to limit slightly the Senate's filibuster Rule 22, hoppered his own civil rights bill as a necessary prerequisite for any ambitious Texan seeking to prove that he is a Westerner, not a Southerner...
...Negro of melancholy mien named Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, 33, and it is largely responsible for putting the San Francisco Giants on a tottering perch at the head of the National League. Last week Sad Sam chomped morosely on his customary toothpick and turned a sullen eye on the Philadelphia Phillies. His crackling curve ball seemed about to eviscerate righthanded batters before breaking sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When he was through, the Giants had won 9-1, and Jones had scored...
...Office of Advanced Standing (always under the watchful eye of its Faculty Committee) that approached those of the Program-teachers who did not first volunteer their services. In making these overtures the Office was guided by only two considerations. It sought to get a good distribution of fields; and also to find professors whose past record and current reputation suggested that they might be especially adept in a very close kind of student-teacher situation...
Troubleshooters (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). First episode in a brand-new series-neither western nor private eye for a change. Keenan Wynn and Decathlon Star Bob Mathias weigh in as a pair of crack construction supervisors...
More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. A vivid written account (no pictures) by a crack photographer of nearly a quarter-century spent covering the world's battlefronts...