Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dynamite in an election year. Sold on Nixon's view, the Cabinet asked Ike to plump for the amendments in a major speech. This time the Vice President sounded a note of caution: save the President for the real fight: don't waste his prestige where it isn't needed. The Cabinet agreed. Then it assigned the Vice President the job of nursing the improvements through Congress...
...will change its format again, this time into a full-size, eight-column paper like its morning sister, the Times. Pinkley said the change was the result of a poll which showed that its readers, 6-to-1, preferred an eight-column paper. "Besides," added Pinkley, "Los Angeles just isn't a tabloid town. Tabloids thrive where two things exist: dense population and good public transportation; Los Angeles has neither...
...night wears on, Manolo circulates around Madrid, seeing the people of his world: beggars, thieves, drunkards, street vendors. For them the naked problem of life is survival; the eternal lesson: "All of us are like beasts . . . because nobody loves anybody; because between men there isn't anything but deception, hate and suffering." For Carmen and the wealthy Angel Aguado, who spend the night going from bar to bar together, the problem is different. Aguado's case is insoluble, since his sickness consists in being a man incapable of functioning as a man. Unlike Aguado, who torments himself, Carmen...
...apples by the refrigerator, ice cream and soda pop in the refrigerator, and a box of cookies on the kitchen table. It's understandable that our place is a favorite hangout for the neighborhood kids. And there are lots of them. Sometimes they come in platoons. It isn't uncommon to see ten of them sprawled out in front of the television set watching six-shooters roar as badmen bite the dust. This is especially true on Saturday mornings...
...while, pushed the hair back from her face, then put the tambourine in her open hand. The patient's fingers closed around it. With more coaxing, she shook it so that it tinkled. She smiled faintly. She shook it again, harder, and the nurse asked, "Isn't that fun?" The patient murmured, "Yes, I believe...