Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were no negotiations at all in the orthodox diplomatic sense, but there were loud, serious, deadly earnest debates about the resources and strengths of the West and Communism. "One reason for the length of the debates," cabled TIME Correspondent Charles Mohr from Moscow, "is that Khrushchev finds it hard to believe that he cannot top Nixon, and so he keeps trying. Nixon on his own part has not been able to top Khrushchev, either...
Miss Thulin plays the daughter-in-law role well, but seems to have been pushed a bit too hard by the director. The supporting parts are well acted...
...Eddie Machen, the No. 2 heavy weight contender until his soft jaw ran into Ingo's hard right, mixes with Reuben Vargas in a return match...
...about his boyhood in Manhattan's Lower East Side, or solemnly addressing the young ladies of a Presbyterian college on "Contributions of Calvinism to American Democracy." The combination is engaging and makes sense; Only in America, Golden's book of clippings from the Israelite, sold 270,000 hard-cover copies, is still going strong, and is being fashioned into a musical by Meredith (The Music Man) Willson...
...both to satire and to the customary activity of satyrs-is probably the work of Gaius Petronius. Nero's "arbiter of elegance." of whom Tacitus wrote: "He spent his days in sleeping, his nights in the enjoyment of life. That success which most men achieve by dint of hard work, he won by laziness. Yet unlike those prodigals who waste themselves and their substance alike, he was not regarded as either a spendthrift or a debauchee, but rather as a refined voluptuary...