Word: fullblown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing quite like a fullblown civil rights debate to bring into focus the grievous problems of leadership in the Senate-particularly when a Democratic majority is in command. As Minority Leader Everett Dirksen mellifluously puts it, there are "100 diverse personalities in the U.S. Senate. O great God, what an amazing and dissonant 100 personalities they are! What an amazing thing it is somehow to harmonize them. What...
Mice that show no signs of harboring a leukemia virus may develop the fullblown disease, and produce the virus plentifully, after they are exposed to X rays...
Instead, she took a series of lovers, most famous of whom was Poet Rainer Maria Rilke. At the time, she was a fullblown 36. Rilke only 22. but the pair exchanged murky, passionate letters. Wrote Lou: "I was your wife for years because you were the first reality, body and man indistinguishably one, the incontestable fact of life.'' Rilke returned the compliment: "The transforming experience which then seized me at a hundred places at once emanated from the great reality of your being.'' But Lou inevitably tired of Rilke's explosive temperament. She finally noted...
Civil war in the steamy Laotian corner of Southeast Asia last week, confined at first to brief scraps and total confusion, now blossomed into the prospect of a fullblown crisis. From Premier Prince Boun Oum came a terse communique: five heavily armed battalions of Communist North Vietnamese soldiers had crossed the border into northeast Laos and had attacked the town of Nonget. It was, cried Boun Oum, nothing less than a case of "flagrant aggression"-another Communist stab along the Asian front, the cold war's broadest and busiest...