Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. woke up after the election with a ticket-splitting headache, many politicians and most pundits agreed with the hasty diagnosis of Fair-Dealing Columnist Thomas Stokes: "The personal victory of President Eisenhower dramatizes, by contrast, the increasing weakness of his party." This was a glib, convenient way of talking about Democratic congressional victories against the Eisenhower avalanche. But it was also a superficial and misleading explanation of an election that carried a deeper and vastly more significant meaning...
...Congress, with an eye toward 1958 elections, are already insisting that the party should offer its own ambitious legislative program, have been sharply critical of Johnson's announced business-as-usual, middle-of-the-road strategy for the next session of Congress (see below). Last week the Fair Dealing New Republic gloomily warned that "Eisenhower's brand of modern Re publicanism may continue to attract . . . broad support if ... Lyndon Johnson is allowed to continue directing the party in Congress as an appendage...
Case by Case. Some who know Eden well argue that this picture of the dithering, indecisive man is less than fair to him. Eden is a great proponent of the clean desk. A diplomatic telegram arrives from an embassy; he deals with it. An attack is made in the House of Commons; he chooses his line of defense without hesitation. At the level of specific answer to specific questions he is far more decisive and less of a procrastinator than Churchill. (When he was waked from a sound sleep to receive Bulganin's note, his first reaction...
Genesis describes Sarah, the wife of Abraham, as "very fair," then plunges on in its narrative. With this tempting morsel, readers have been left for centuries to wonder at the beauty that turned the head of the Pharaoh of Egypt. Last week, with scholarly remoteness from war, Jerusalem's Dr. Yigael Vadin published his latest Dead Sea Scroll translation-part of a document earlier identified as an apocryphal Book of Genesis (TIME, Feb. 20). The scroll did justice to Sarah's beauty with an ecstatic, head-to-toe description of her charms...
...beautiful the look of her face . . . And how fine is the hair of her head, how fair indeed are her eyes and how pleasing her nose and all the radiance of her face . . . How beautiful her breast and how lovely all her whiteness. Her arms goodly to look upon, and her hands how perfect ... all the appearance of her hands. How fair her palms and how long and fine all the fingers of her hands. Her legs how beautiful and without blemish her thighs. And all maidens and all brides that go beneath the wedding canopy are not more fair...