Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as Ohio's Republican Senatorial Candidate George Bender puckered his lips to begin a curbside television interview in Cleveland, a passerby jeered at him, a Bender admirer took strenuous offense, and in an instant the cameras were staring wide-eyed at the best TV fight in a long while. In Pittsburgh, an orator invoked the gods of Republicanism and was promptly conked on the head by a picture of Dwight Eisenhower, which fell from the wall. In New York, Democrat Averell Harriman may have broken a coarse record by calling the state's G.O.P. leaders liars some...
...Vogue readers the first news of the slowly rising hem line, of the first Chanel jersey cloth from Paris trimmed with rabbit fur. Vogue organized the first big New York fashion show, with models parading the clothes a la Paris, and was pleased to report that it was an instant...
Pudgy Ed Turner, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Maryland's First District, paused for an instant in his speech to an Eastern Shore audience one day last week. Then he got off a remark that, on the surface, seemed singularly unexciting. Said Turner: "You know how I stand on our traditional way of life here on the Shore." His listeners immediately began stomping the floor, broke into wild whoops and hollers of approval. For the Eastern Shoremen did know how Ed Turner stands; he stands foursquare for the continued segregation of whites and Negroes in Maryland schools...
There are many who claim that the United Nations can never be an effective agency for keeping the peace unless the veto is completely abolished. Only then could instant collective action against an aggressor be taken on a world-wide scale. In theory, this is true. But today, at least, there simply is no great power which would commit its forces to action anywhere in the world if such action clashed directly with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost...
...effect might become altogether too brutal. Commenting on one of his Christmas cards, which shows Santa's sleigh drawn by a tiny bird, Steinberg once sighed that "the bird every so often gets a tremendous hit with that whip." And a gentle smile perked for just an instant his sad mustache...