Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people are becoming cowards. For years certain concepts of right and justice have been foremost among our ideals. They have not always been able to live up to them, but they have admired them in others. They have rooted for certain people and their causes, and when these ideals have won out over crookedness and connivery they have rejoiced. But sometimes right does not win out over forces of injustice; then all of us are put to the test. It is easy to switch allegiance to whomever has the upper hand, and, with him, call all former ideals...
...first Madrid show in 1945 made Cossio famous overnight. His second, in 1950, secured his place as Spain's foremost living artist. The mural commission followed. Cossio took a studio atop a downtown Madrid skyscraper and established a daily routine: mornings working alone on the mural at the church, afternoons painting and resting alone in his studio, evenings chatting with friends at the Café Gijon, an artists' hangout...
...government-owned quarters, staffed with enlisted servants. But in the postwar star-burst of promotions, even the high command began to develop a housing headache. Last week it turned into a top-level crisis that shook the Pentagon to its highest council chambers and had the nation's foremost military men scurrying around Washington, grabbing houses like kids in a game of musical chairs...
...tall, courtly scholar, he made all knowledge his province, and in an age of shriveling faith and swelling skepticism, he steadfastly refused to repudiate the universe or the God who made it. This week, as he turned 80, William Hocking occupied a place as the nation's foremost living exponent of Idealism-one of the least heeded, but most healing, of all philosophies...
Near Joplin last week, the state of Missouri and the U.S. Government established the first national monument ever dedicated to a U.S. Negro: a 210-acre memorial to George Washington Carver, who was born a slave and became one of the foremost of American agricultural scientists. Even as an old man, benign and toothless, white-cropped Scientist Carver never stopped his inspired puttering in the laboratory he developed at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute...