Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair to the President who appointed Dulles, one must begin with a disclaimer. For in many ways, President Eisenhower himself has shown that when he takes the lead of his country's foreign affairs, resulting policies are usually creative and responsible. The Atoms-for-Peace plan, last summer's Geneva Conference, and the scheme for mutual aerial inspection have all demonstrated that the President, when he chooses, can be a much more effective Secretary of State than his well-trained appointee...
...raised in the tradition of no supermen and no indispensable men, and therefore if you do retain some of the humility and modesty with which you hope you were born, why I believe that when [someone] comes along and says. 'I believe you are doing a pretty fair job as President of the U.S.,' you would be rather astonished...
...Honest Ave Harriman got ready to swing west on a dozen-stop speechmaking tour through seven states. Warming up before he took off, Harriman stepped before the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union in Atlantic City and created his own slogan to succeed "New Deal" and "Fair Deal." What the U.S. needs to move forward from the Roosevelt-Truman era, he said, is a program based on "New Vision...
...father, Aircraft Plant Guard Charles Sime, has his way, the rapid young man will be a long time slowing down. After his world-record dash last week, Dave had hardly caught his breath when he was talking on the telephone to his dad in Fair Lawn, N.J. "Next time do it faster," was Charles Sime's peremptory order...
...carried a classified ad: "I am going to sell everything I can and will sell cheap. I have many odds and ends that will be a help to many as everything is so expensive. I have jewelry galore, a beautiful yo-yo bedspread that won first prize at the fair. Hoping I can sell out to go where I can be with someone, thanking one and all in advance...