Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...F.D.R. not only confused his enemies; he made them look politically inept in the eyes of the world. Their hope was that they could hew him down to their own pigmy size, but he died while still towering over them, loved by millions, and respected by multitudes...
...Rockefeller set up, largely with his own and his brothers' money, two private organizations to stimulate Latin America, one for technical assistance, the other to supply venture capital (mostly for agricultural enterprises). These operations served as pilot plants for the Point Four program. Having helped Ike and HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby reorganize the Government's newest Cabinet department, Rockefeller was ready for a broader assignment. Ike gave it to him, directing him to help the U.S. "seek to join with all peoples in a common effort to achieve and sustain the basic essentials of human dignity...
...Seed has, however, its shortcomings. It does not sufficiently hew to the line; it does not properly keep to a level. A faithful enough adaptation of March's novel, it yet has characters and scenes that, on the stage, make for slackness and dead spots. And it loses in intensity from having too many themes and too full a bag of horrors...
...Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 61, a onetime ostrich farmer who runs the Nationalist Party machine and who is even more fanatically racialist than Daniel Malan. Last week retiring Dr. Malan gave his nod to Havenga, the more moderate of the two but nonetheless a man who could be trusted to hew to the harsh line laid out by Preacher Malan...
...Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Roswell Burchard ("Roddy") Perkins, 27, the youngest presidential appointee of the Eisenhower Administration. Perkins, who went to Washington from New York last fall as an adviser on social security matters to HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, was spotted for a comer on his record in the 1952 campaign when he headed "Youth for Eisenhower" in four eastern states. At Harvard (Class of '47) "Roddy" Perkins played end on the football team, later edited the Harvard Law Review. He wrote in his class book: "I look upon the future with considerable optimism...