Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much pain after downing eight Mass (two-quart steins) of beer during the long afternoon. For 25 seconds they grunted on even terms. Then Lehner, his face contorted like a gargoyle's, inexorably forced Glatz's fist over the line, rose to declare: "I'm blessedly glad that I've won today." With that the big brass band oompahed into the Fingerhackln Hymn...
...labors of the many, "counter to men's conscience." But Nikita Khrushchev's farewell address, like his farewell press conference and his approach to the U.S. in the final days, was free of bombast and bluster, and characterized by a roughhewn folksiness. Said he: "I am glad of this opportunity to speak to you before my departure. We liked your beautiful cities and wonderful roads, but most of all your amiable and kindhearted people...
Last weekend Old Grad Rockefeller ('30) made a trip back to his alma mater for the football game with Holy Cross. Considering that the expedition was billed as "nonpolitical," he played some energetic political football, glad-handing every Dartmouth man within reach, tossing big-grin hellos at every housewife, policeman and infant within shouting distance. When he arrived in Manchester the night before the game, Rockefeller-for-President rooters were waiting with a brass band and a batch of placards reading. WHAT A FELLER. ROCKEFELLER and LET'S ROLL WITH ROCK. Next morning Rock rolled over to Concord...
...flounced off the set of Can-Can in Hollywood one day last week, Actress Shirley MacLaine began running over her lines. "How the hell are you, Khrush? I'm goddammed glad you're here. Welcome to our country; and welcome to 20th Century-Fox, and I hope you enjoy seeing how Hollywood makes a musical. We're going to shoot the can-can number without pants." Like most of Hollywood, which was like most of the U.S., Shirley MacLaine had the Khrushchev visit on her mind (she is an official movie hostess) and, since it was inevitable...
...Siege at Peking, Peter Fleming, an able journalist (onetime London Times correspondent) turned military historian (Operation Sea Lion-TIME, July 22, 1957), does not dwell overlong on the corrupt, decaying empire of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who was only too glad to turn the wrath of the masses from herself. Instead, he concentrates on the rise and fall of the hordes of shrieking peasants who called themselves "Fists of Righteous Harmony" ("Boxers," said a missionary, giving the rebellion its name). Against them for eight weeks stood a handful of isolated foreigners, including some of the great names of future...