Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lies in the South, I could not help wincing at the words of Georgia's Roy V. Harris re the university newspaper's editorial on segregation [TIME, Dec. . ... Indeed, the regent leaves you wondering just who the "little handful of sissy, misguided squirts" are. Many men, lack ing the moral courage of facing fact squarely, are misguiding themselves and others through a slanted interpretation of the words that all men are the equal creation...
...every 100 of these families who read TIME'S Pacific Edition, 43 own their own homes, 76 have telephones, 70 have electric or gas refrigerators and 63 employ one or more servants. There are 109 autos, 27 pianos, 45 electric washing machines among each 100 TiME-read-ing families; 39 of the families have one or more dogs, and six have either a yacht or a motor boat...
...research for the cover story on Vinoba Bhave [TIME, May 11];. Much of the time was spent trekking through the tiger-and the elephant-infested jungles. Since Bhave and his followers are strict practition ers of ahimsa (nonviolence), and are not even supposed to resist a man-eat ing tiger or a rogue elephant, each vil lage we passed through furnished us with a corps of drummers to scare off the wild beasts. Before dawn every morning, as we walked through the narrow-jungle paths with the native party chanting the names of Hindu deities and the drums rolling, there...
...resting in each, to see how the skin reacts to different soaps and detergents. Clothes are soiled with radioactive dirt, "Geiger-counted" after every washing. Researchers work daily on such questions as: What holds dirt on cloth and skin? What do suds accomplish? (Mainly, they accomplish sales. Nonsuds-ing detergents often work just as well, but many women won't buy them...
...almost as much time on boats as they do in the office. The daily Stamford Advocate once ran a picture of a Lightning capsized in Long Island Sound with the crew sitting on the overturned hull. Scoffed the caption at one of the crew: "An assistant editor of Yacht ing magazine covering the championship race." Like other staffers, Managing Editor William H. Taylor, the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his yachting articles in the New York Herald Tribune in 1935), crews as often as he watches from the shore. But he sometimes longs for the days...