Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Democrats got ready to follow up. A House committee will begin an investigation to see whether there has been any violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (the law covering campaign expenditures). The inquiry might serve to offset the same congressional probing of P.A.C...
...Will Communism overrun the Continent? At the moment the chances seem to favor that. If the Communist advance becomes too rapid, we may try to stop it. If we do, and Russia by that time has the bomb (say 1950), then no mind can imagine to horrors that will follow...
...nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him out of the Navy after Ernie Pyle died; luckily for Ruark, he stayed in, and was spared the ordeal of trying to follow in Pyle's footsteps (TIME...
Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was once Rodin's secretary, described what his boss was after: "Rodin assumed that if caught quickly, the simple movements of the model . . . contain the strength of an expression which is not surmised, because one is not wont to follow it with intense and constant attention. By not permitting his eyes to leave the model for an instant, and by allowing his quick and trained hand free play over the drawing paper, Rodin seized an enormous number of never before observed and hitherto unrecorded gestures of which the radiating force of expression was immense...
Last week in Manhattan, 56-year-old Dame Myra Hess, greatest of all contemporary women pianists, played her first U.S. recital in 7½ years. The concert had been sold out weeks in advance. In the audience, earnest young piano students used scores to follow her program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Manhattan's concertgoers found her style cool, careful and womanly: a grateful contrast to some of the pedal pounding and frantic gymnastics that passes for virtuosity these days...