Word: hardes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a young lawyer who lives in a split-level home in a New York City suburb won election last week as speaker of the New York state assembly, ending the traditional hold (69 years) of powerful upstate G.O.P. forces on the job. Popular, hard-working Winner Joseph F. Carlino, 42, is the son of an Italian politician who quit Tammany
...being the U.N., staff economists find it hard to question the word of member governments, and even harder to check up on nonmember Peking. Western observers clustered in Hong Kong, however, were frankly skeptical of the U.N. findings. All along they were suspicious of Peking's 1958 claims and even more leery of Peking's blithe boast that in 1959 production would go up another 40%. Red China's government is now reporting droughts and pestilence and-in Kwangtung province-the "worst flood of the century" (TIME, July 6). And at the very moment that Shanghai...
Queen in Control. The real shocker was in the women's championship, where the U.S. has ruled the roost since 1938. As the finals began, this year looked no different from all the rest. For the U.S., blonde, hefty (5 ft. 5^ in., 140 Ibs.) Darlene Hard, 23, an ex-waitress from California who fuels her hard-hitting attack with a voracious appetite ("I just can't pass up anything on the menu"), was a recognized player of championship caliber. By contrast, her opponent. Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, daughter of a Sao Paulo veterinarian, had never...
...literal sense. Her first gentleman was a homosexual youth who needed her help, but because of her own needs she was unable to help him. She failed him, and in the end destroyed him. She has continued through life looking for an anachronism--a 19th-century gentleman in a hard, fast-moving 20th-century world where gentleness in a man has become synonymous with weakness and or effeminacy. Mitch is her saving grace, but Mr. Rabb gives little emphasis to Blanche's desire to marry Mitch. He emphasizes only her vulnerability, and to play only her incapability to survive...
...Pavlov Route. Man's fate, as Condon sees it, is to work hard, sacrifice much, lead an intelligent, just and fruitful life, and then show up at the Last Judgment minus his pants. Sooner or "later, like the blind beggars toppling after their blind leader in Bruegel's chillingly ironic painting, all the author's characters stumble into the ditch of mortality. Satirist Condon is not afraid to set up outrageously improbable situations to achieve his effects. In his first novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), an Achilles among criminals was brought to heel while trying to hijack...