Word: founded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...found your June 15 story on Lewis Strauss most interesting and informative. It told not only about him but of the pettiness of our Congressmen. To refuse a capable man a position because of personality, rather than wrongdoing, reflects the immaturity of some of our Congressmen and is a strong mark against our country...
Dramatic Opulence. That Gloria and "Stoky" could never see eye to eye on the children had been apparent to friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world...
...white man has ever been executed in Florida for raping a Negro woman. But since 1925, Florida has executed 37 Negroes found guilty of raping white women; four others now sit in the death house, awaiting the electric chair...
...chronicle of the bridge, ranging the 350 years from its building by a 16th century grand vizier, as a link between the European and Asian halves of the Ottoman Empire, to its near destruction in World War I. At Visegrad, in what is now Yugoslavia, the right bridge had found the right people, an amiable mixture of Serbs, Jews and Turks with an immoderate love of women, an inclination to alcohol and laziness and a dislike of war, for they were men who "preferred to live foolishly rather than to die foolishly...
...fears he may have been overheard and jumps back with a frightened glance over his shoulder--a delightful suggestion of adolescence. When the lovers finally part, their extended hands do not quite touch--a touch, or rather non-touch, that visibly conveys the yearning and unfulfilment of their newly-found rapture...