Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet every wile and stratagem that may be used against us. But I mean also a persevering resolution to explore every decent avenue towards a lasting and just peace, no matter how many and how bitter our disappointments. I mean an inspired faith that men's determination...
...picked to represent all the Type I strains, was safe because it was killed; critics had damned it in the live state as the most virulent form known, and the likeliest to cause paralysis. Now, Dr. Salk wavered: Mahoney was a good strain because it multiplied in liveliest fashion in monkey kidney material and therefore yielded a good "crop" for the vaccine-maker. But he seemed resigned to abandoning it; he was checking scores of other Type I strains to find a replacement...
After the system had been in operation for almost a week, the CRIMSON noted that "the halls of learning have not been deserted in wholesale fashion. Whatever else had happened, reading is being done. Whether that reading is accomplishing any permanent results is a question for the future. But anyone who doubts the ability of the undergraduate to rise voluntarily before ten o'clock and to sit with a book in his hands for several hours . . . had best climb the multitudinous steps of Widener Library and gaze upon the hive...
...easy one, even for a former U.S. President and his wife. Although Mr. and Mrs. Truman failed to display the easy, unaffected stage presence of their daughter until well on in the half hour, the Truman family, on the whole, brought the show off in folksy fashion. Margaret was charming and her parents were dignified on one of Person to Person's best shows...
...into a pair of buffoons who would have trouble finding the corner mailbox. History records that Sacajawea, the expedition's Indian interpreter, was one of the wives of a French guide and the mother of his son. Hollywood knows better: actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins. Heston finds her a tasty dish even if her name is too much for him to master: he calls her "Janie" for short and proposes marriage. For all its duels with knives, wild Indian attacks and synthetic quarrels between the leaders. Horizons...