Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory last November, stood up in the Senate and denounced the Johnson approach as an effort to "block that veto" by turning out "legislation which renounces or blurs or fuzzes or muddies the Democratic Party platform, policies and program. 'Block that veto' is a euphemism for 'Give the President what he wants,' whether or not we think it is good for the country...
...press. To a Scripps-Howard reporter, he patronized U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's performance at Geneva ("Dulles would have patched up [the Allied rifts] quicker"), opined that Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan must be persuaded that "when one belongs to an alliance, he must give up some views of his own." But he reserved the roughest treatment of all for his much-abused Vice Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard. To CBS, Adenauer confided that he planned to stay in office as Chancellor through the 1961 elections and expected to have a voice in selecting his successor...
...give Man's utmost for the best man knows...
...sure, Miss Swenson does not give us precisely the Juliet that the playwright intended: a nymphet not yet quite fourteen years old. But this is a Juliet we shall probably never see, until perhaps someone revives Shakespeare's practice of having his heroines played by young boys. Miss Swenson is, I should guess, twice Juliet's age; yet she gives us a Juliet who is clearly a teenager, and that is in itself a rare achievement. She underscores the impression with occasional youthful bits of business, such as tossing her breviary up in the air and catching it again...
...Mercutio did Shakespeare give the celebrated Queen Mab speech, one of the great virtuoso arias in the language. Smithers delivers this faery monologue in a slow, sloppy, slovenly manner, with no heed to what he is saying, when the speech should be, in Mercutio's own words, "as thin of substance...