Word: halo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tree Doctor. Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn has developed a new antibiotic drug* for trees and plants that cures such previously fatal plant diseases as fire blight (in apple and pear trees) and halo blight (in beans). Agrimycin, a compound of streptomycin and terramycin, is absorbed into the plants' systems just as antibiotics penetrate the human blood stream. The drug will be available in quantity by March...
...last the utility has issued a report to the stockholders. Bing, besought by the Satevepost, has dictated his memoirs to Writer Pete Martin, and they have been published under a title, Call Me Lucky, calculated to retouch the custom-made halo of modesty around one of the shrewdest heads in show business. Already published in excerpt by the Post, Call Me Lucky is now off on a climb into bestseller lists...
...with Dinah, but an attack of ulcers changes that plan. When he finally gets on his feet again. Dinah has drifted away from him, towards drink and the arms of another lover. Though she puts a "good face" on their patched-up marriage, Madeleine soon tosses her own moral halo in the dust for a clandestine affair with a young schoolmaster. Rickie's sudden death brings both sisters up short with the sense of mutual loss and mutual widowhood. Novel's end finds the aging sisters reconciled and cluck-clucking over the hard time they gave...
What makes TIME feel that the pulpits of America are immune to infiltration of Communistic ideology? The halo surrounding some of our pulpits is a lovely pastel pink. The teachings of a social gospel present a most fertile ground for any liberal preacher to lean toward the "left." Remember, the church teaches that "none is infallible." This also includes the clergy...
...Both a halo and a forked tail go with the headline-catching role of chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Every chairman from Martin Dies on has been a white knight to part of the public, an inquisitorial fiend in the eyes of another part. By last week the new committee chairman, Illinois' Harold Himmel Velde, had managed to dent his halo and seemed firmly hitched to his forked tail. Velde's trouble: too much talk, too little caution, not enough political horse sense...