Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "he is as brave as he is humble." In fact, humble-with the "h" silent-was the word for Harry at Denver. It was not the word for the Democrats. Boss Jake Arvey, grinning as the Democrats chose his Chicago bailiwick for the 1952 convention, said: "This isn't a smile of victory, it's a smile of confidence." Bill Boyle, the Democrats' national chairman, announced that "voting trends" and reports from party leaders in every state, "point conclusively to another sweeping Democratic victory in the 1952 election...
Last week, just a month before the deadline, James Gape was still trying to make up his mind. "We're very much on the fence," said he. "It's the children. Life is different in England. The system is different. The schools are different. It isn't easy to make that kind of decision...
...home a few weeks before being recalled. The business was going down every day and he was worried sick. Sooner or later he feared he'd lose that house. Their skipper back at the base was Lieut. Commander Ray Nittinger, Lieut. Marovish's insurance partner. It isn't easy for men like these to swallow this sort of thing without gagging slightly...
...That Panama flag you saw isn't the only one out here, by a long shot," he said over a big steak. "If it had been a clear day you'd have seen five or six. And there'll be more tomorrow. I can't understand that. Not when we've lost 65,000 men in Korea already...
...Newspaper If a newspaper stacks up all the facts in a news story, is it fulfilling its responsibility to its readers? Many an editor who likes to call such treatment "objective reporting" thinks it is. The Christian Science Monitor's able Editor Erwin D. Canham thinks it isn't, and last week wound up a six-part, Page One series of articles that told his readers...