Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend dough." The U.S. public seemed more worried about the economy than during the 1953-54 recession. Consumers are deeper in than they were in 1954, more troubled about the cold war, less confident about the Eisenhower Administration, so they find signs of sag more worrisome. The mood of grey caution took some of the cheer away from what a few months ago would have seemed very good news: Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell declared that "the persistent rise [in consumer prices] has ended," and the Bureau of Labor Statistics followed up by announcing that its Consumer Price Index...
...girl told me to give Senator Kennedy all her love and to tell him they would all vote for him." At the University of Kansas, Kennedy aged perceptibly while barely escaping with his skin from autograph-hunting students who mobbed him backstage after a speech. In Oklahoma City, a grey-haired lady gushed: "I've come to see him because I think he's wonderful." At a Washington dinner party, a tipsy woman flung herself onto Kennedy's lap, locked her arms around his neck, vowed eternal adoration. Kennedy unceremoniously broke the strangle hold, plunked his admirer...
...Jack Kennedy has gone on some of the most highly visible assets in U.S. politics. At 40, he is trim (6 ft., 160 lbs.) and boyishly handsome, with a trademark in the shock of unruly brown hair (now showing a few grey strands) that Wildroot only seems to make wilder. He belongs to a legendary family that surpasses its legend: the Kennedys of Massachusetts. He is an authentic war hero and a Pulitzer-prizewinning author (for his bestselling Profiles in Courage). He is an athlete (during World War II his swimming skill saved his life and those...
CZECHOSLOVAKIA Docile & Grey Twenty-four hours after President Antonin Zapotocky, dead of a heart attack, was buried with full Communist honors, the Czech National Assembly last week smoothly elected his successor by a unanimous show of 353 hands. The new President: Antonin Novotny, 52. the onetime locksmith who has been First Secretary of the Czech Communist Party since 1953. In a departure from the post-Stalin taboo against party leaders' taking government posts, Novotny kept his party job. But, like all the other changes inflicted on the nation by the Communists since the 1948 Putsch, this one caused hardly...
Czechoslovakia is the most prosperous of Russia's satellites. Prague has more cars on its streets than any other satellite capital. Its shop windows are aglitter with goods, its services and amenities rival a city of the West. Yet it is a grey city, devoid of progress and hope. "Caution" is the national byword...