Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President in choosing Brennan as a recess appointment in an election year seems to be assuming his own victory in November. He could have--and should have--left the seat vacant, for the winner of the election to fill at his discretion. Should Mr. Stevenson win, he will inherit an awkward problem from Mr. Eisenhower...
...among Eaglemen last week there was little doubt about the eventual bright outcome. Said one sergeant: "We're new, see? We don't inherit anybody else's mistakes. We're gonna write the book. That's good...
Collector Untermyer, a longtime New York jurist, now retired at 70, inhabits a dark Fifth Avenue duplex crammed to its high ceilings with porcelains, splendid tapestries, bronzes and English furniture. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum farther up the Avenue, which should some day inherit the Untermyer collection. About the only thing in his apartment not destined for museum display is the TV set squatting patiently at the foot of his bed. Among his Meissen prizes are the three pieces shown opposite...
...endlessly pursued by the women in the picture. Maureen, after nuzzling with Ray in her hotel room, visiting historic Sintra and going for a ride in his speedboat, is so enraptured that she offers Rains $1,000,000 to deliver her husband dead so that she can inherit his vast fortune and buy Ray a new boat. And spirited Yvonne keeps sneaking out of the seraglio to sigh against Ray's shoulder and warn him to be careful. Ray has scarcely time left over to retrieve the missing husband, dispose of Badman Lederer, spurn Maureen, see Rains...
...atomic colossi of Russia and the U.S., no isolated European country can make its voice heard. It is necessary to weave between the countries of Western Europe the bonds that will prevent Germany from turning to the East." Because nobody wanted to kick out Guy Mollet and inherit the mess in Algeria, Mollet...