Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light mahogany. His brownish green eyes were clear and sharp, his face lean, the big hands that wrapped around the handle of his 34-oz. Louisville Slugger were calloused and hard. He had 198 lbs., mostly well-trained muscle, tucked away on his 6 ft. 3¾ in. frame. He expected, he conceded, "to have a pretty good year." But as usual...
...Arguer. As a boy in California, Mo. (1950 pop. 3,500), Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit...
...originally but reasonably enough, that the decade of the 18903 is the watershed in U.S. moral, intellectual and economic history, a time when old certainties began to crumble before the blows of science and the resulting new philosophies. After that, he is understandably content to give up trying to frame the mind of the most complex of all nations and moves rapidly through such routine academic assignments as William James and Pragmatism, Thorstein Veblen and the New Economics, the Literature of Revolt...
...Angeles (TIME, Nov. 14), Billy Graham worked hard for the Lord. Flailing his arms, crouching and pointing, coiling his big (6 ft. 2 in.) frame around the Bible he read from, or passionately wrestling with the microphone, he gave his audiences not a moment's emotional letup. But to oldtimers who remembered another generation of revivalists-Sam Jones, Gypsy Smith, Sunday himself-Graham and his entourage looked disturbingly like something out of Hollywood. His sharply cut double-breasted suits and high-decibel ties, like those of his Co-Evangelist Grady Wilson, 30, and black-haired, 26-year-old Platform...
...taken between two escorts up two flights of stairs into a small office . . . On the wall to my left was a picture of Lenin, on the opposite wall a frame with the phrase 'Merciless Fight Against Foreign Agents...