Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West took the upheaval in its summer stride, as if the appeal of freedom and erosion of despotism were now so clearly established that they needed no self-conscious exploitation. The President did not cancel his Fourth of July weekend on the farm at Gettysburg; the Secretary of State did not return from his long weekend at Duck Island, his retreat on Lake Ontario. In Washington the experts' comments on Khrushchev's apparent dominance ranged from a cynical "You can't run anything with a committee" to sweeping predictions that the beginning of the end of Russian...
...Washington comments were mild compared to what the French were saying. In Brest, French organizations conspicuously boycotted U.S. Fourth of July celebrations in protest. Rumbled irate Defense Minister André Morice: "I don't know if Monsieur Kennedy spends peaceful nights without nightmares, but I do know that [his help to the Algerian rebels] will cost many more innocent lives and help prolong a drama that would have ended long ago if thoughtless friends had weighed their words and acts...
...advanced training in doubletalk, no classroom in the Communist world last week could match Peking's Huai Jen Hall, site of the fourth meeting of Red China's National People's Congress. Led off by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, July 8), Peking's Marxist mandarins popped up, one by one, to assure the pseudo Parliament that the nation was in splendid shape. Then, one by one, they cited statistics demonstrating that the best-laid plans of Mao's men have gone agley...
...Jacqueline Pung, the U.S.G.A. Women's Open at Mamaroneck, N.Y. When she posted a last-round 72 for an overall score of 298, she seemed to have the title won. Although 72 was her true score on the round, she had a five on her scorecard for the fourth hole, where she had actually shot a six. When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole total of 299. ¶Turning the biennial Newport-Annapolis race around and sailing northward...
...nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar jaw-and painted the face of Conscience. One-eyed John Trumbull, an aristocrat who painted small pictures that could be encompassed with his limited vision, was a Fourth of July painter par excellence. He painted his famed The Declaration of Independence (see overleaf) on a canvas only 30 inches wide, compressed in the scene 48 convincingly grouped portrait figures (at the table before John Hancock stand John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin...