Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the White House offices somber-faced staffers tiptoed across the squares of linoleum tile, whispered out their business as if some member of the official family were seriously ill. There was no laughter; tension ran higher than at any time since Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack. In the spacious, green-carpeted corner office, only 30 paces from the President's own, worked Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, briskly shuffling papers, softly snapping monosyllabic orders as he had since the day that he became Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff in January...
...world has more distinguished byliners than the massive New York Times. With its 50 foreign correspondents alone, there can be and sometimes are differences in interpretation of the same situation to be spotted by the close reader. Last week readers close and casual were enjoying a dispute of higher visibility between two top Timesmen. The debaters: Pundit Arthur Krock, 71, and his longtime friend and colleague James ("Scotty") Reston, 48, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
...market for fear of missing it altogether. In the subtle psychological change, the weight of opinion was against any sharp break back to the recession lows. Instead, Wall Street's shrewd professionals speculated that the market would hang fairly close to the 450-460 level before edging higher...
Retail sales continued surprisingly strong. The Census Bureau estimated April sales at $16.3 billion, and a level 2.5% over March. But the ratio of sales to inventories was still considerably higher than a year ago, which meant that businessmen will probably continue to cut their inventories until the ratio finally gets back in line...
...Higher Booty. Near Jackson, Miss., a burglar entered The Forest Hill Methodist Church, stole a safe containing 300 sermons...