Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador has sent us his answer sheet for the last TIME News Quiz, which ran in the July 4 issue. He answered 91 of the 105 questions correctly, and is inclined to think that is quite a good mark. It is, in fact, considerably above average, and President Galo Plaza Lasso should be proud...
...eating TIME'S covers and four-color ads. She wanted to know whether the red and other colored inks would harm him. Our production department advised her that red inks contain phlox-ine, which has lead in it-and lead will not do anybody's son any good...
There seemed to be a good chance that the President's military aide had done so only for the most pathetic of rewards-for flattery, good fellowship and a fool's false sense of power...
Friendship. Whatever the final outcome of the investigation, it had already defined the kind of dank atmosphere in which Vaughan's good friend Hunt and his colleagues had operated. If Vaughan himself had done nothing worse, he had used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics. At week's end, the President was still sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship...
...Washington newshen bustled up to Vice President Alben Barkley and asked coyly: "Veep, my editor would like to know what La Dame Hadley has that we don't have-except maybe you?" Barkley promptly seized good-looking, thirtyish Ruth Montgomery and bussed her smack on the lips. "There is your answer, kid!" cried the Veep. Chortling, he added: "I'll tell you something you've got that she hasn't got-a husband...