Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of eleven tentative opponents, Old Earl's chief problem probably will be New Orleans' handsome, hard-working Mayor DeLesseps Morrison (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956), who lost to Long under an avalanche of upcountry votes in 1956. So confident is Earl of winning ("I wanna give that little squirt Della Soups Morrison one more beating") that he is even trying statesmanship. To a crowd gathered for a bridge dedication at Natchitoches he solemnly suggested that the Governor's office be put under civil service. Knowing Earl, remembering Huey, the crowd just laughed...
...born Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, 52, a West Pointer ('28) who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross soon after Pearl Harbor for his solo B-17 attack against Japanese warships off the Philippine coast, led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. Now the Air Force's hard-driving deputy chief of staff for personnel, Lieut. General O'Donnell can look forward to wearing a fourth star in his new post...
Most of the men were newly arrived Italians. When Bowman started classes, "they sat before me like children and listened intently while I began the English language with the ridiculously simple statement, 'This is I, that is you.' " Suspicion quickly vanished; said one hard-muscled student as Bowman struggled to look professorial: "We wid you, teacher...
Part of the slippage was due to the fact that U.S. gold, priced by law at $35 per ounce, plus a handling charge of one-fourth of i%, is slightly under the price on the British free market. The difference would encourage foreigners with dollars or other hard currency that they wanted to turn into gold to buy in the U.S. rather than in Britain. The British government itself was also buying U.S. gold again for its reserves. During the early part of this year, Britain stopped buying to accumulate $200 million borrowed from the International Monetary Fund...
...addition to the very real naivete with which we as a delegation approached many situations, it is important to remember that on a number of occasions during his visit to the United States the author of the Ogonek article had been rather hard pressed to answer the questions put to him. His experiences with the American press and at Harvard were, on his own admission, especially unpleasant in this regard--a fact which could not be admitted in Ogonek, but which could be avenged through the satirical use of Harvard as a symbol of the rich capitalist class which oppresses...