Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature won't, Pluto will") and the salty wisdom of Indiana's late boss, Tom Taggart. Last week the Democrats, their blood up, went back to French Lick to consider how their party might be reinvigorated for 1956. "There is no question but what we will focus our guns on the President himself if he is a candidate," said National Chairman Paul Butler, "or his record...
...fandom is notoriously ignorant, unfair or surly - sometimes all three. Only in the Polo Grounds do you get a solid mass of intelligent, polite, yet loyal, spectators." Clearly, Fiction Writer (Big Out) Hano suffers from the astigmatism of his trade ; his picture is purposely a little out of focus. But sitting with Hano at that game (Giants 5, Indians 2), and rummaging through his baseball memories with him, is fine fun. Still, the reader wonders what has happened to Arnold Hano since the Giants won that series - and fell back on this season's evil days. As a loser...
...sunglasses of ordinary tourists; instead of 90-piece orchestras or 100-decibel choruses to remind a man that he is getting his money's worth, the music is small and wrought with loving care for some of the most passionately musical audiences in the world. And the focus of it all is the adored and venerated master-Spanish Cellist Pablo Casals...
...young civil servants, U Nu has striven to lift his country toward new hope of survival (TIME, Aug. 30). Modest and meditative U Nu fought the Communists at home, plumped for Nehru's neutralism abroad, but concentrated on leading an extraordinary Buddhist revival which is now the focus of his country's anti-Communist potential...
Once reopened, the damaged churches became a focus for piety and anger. Inside Santo Domingo, a priest said Mass at an altar improvised of boxes and boards placed in front of a cross made of two charred timbers wired together and planted in a heap of rubble. At San Ignacio, a brown-robed friar carefully set back on its feet an image of San Benito de Palermo, whose day it was. "Not even in Russia did they do this," he said. "They hanged priests, but they did not destroy the churches." In San Miguel lay partly burned church records...