Word: heyday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the rutted road back from Pitchfork Ben's heyday, a great argument has developed about just what kind of equality Congress and the state legislatures meant to give the Negro through the 14th Amendment. Its language seems sweeping enough, but many lawyers are impressed by the fact that it contains no specific declaration on segregation. That point has become important in the cases now before the Supreme Court...
...next Nov. 7, the revolution's 36th anniversary, Upper Row will be back to its historic use as one of Moscow's biggest shopping centers. In its Czarist heyday half a century ago, the Upper Row-one of three huge sandstone arcades, three stories high and glass-roofed, newly built at a cost of $3,000,000-boasted 1,000 shops. Came the revolution, the end of private industry and the proliferation of bureaucracy: the shops eventually became offices...
Rural Reactionary. French nightclub singers, much easier to remember than French premiers, are possibly better guides to their country's history. There was Lucienne Boyer, who had her heyday in the uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'Amour as if Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number...
...Getulio Vargas last week summoned back to his side his most famed oldtime lieutenant. As his new finance minister, he chose Oswaldo Aranha, 59. Like Getulio, a gaucho from Brazil's south, Oswaldo was field commander of the 1930 revolution that first brought Vargas to power. In the heyday of the Good Neighbor policy, he became Vargas' popular envoy in the U.S. and his stoutly pro-allied foreign minister during World War II. As a member of the conservative opposition after the war, he embarked on a career at the U.N. that led to presidency of the General...
...imprisoned by its Iron Curtain, but on the nations without. It was barely a month since Joseph Stalin died, yet in that short spell his heirs had launched a busy peace offensive. They talked of peace in more earnest-sounding tones than they had used since Litvinov's heyday. They made concessions where the conceding did them no hurt: a da instead of a nyet in the U.N. Security Council, a pardon for a drunken Briton held in a Moscow jail, an agreement to talk over the exchange of wounded prisoners in Korea...