Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than ordinary lazy." Arkansas' U.S. Senator James William Fulbright, then a lowerclassman and later president of the university, gives Ed full marks as a storyteller and cartoonist. Beyond that, Stone seemed content to remain a lady's man (despite his baggy-kneed appearance) and to join the boys in downing mountain dew. Finally the spinster head of the art department took alarm, wrote to Ed's brother Hicks, an architect in Boston and 14 years Ed's senior: "This boy has divine talent. If you don't take him away from here...
...rates (1 per kw-h). low living costs (50? for round steak, 24? for a shot of fine Irish whisky), and the idea that the U.S. manufacturer in Ireland will be able to sell his goods tariff-free to the future European free-trade area, which Ireland intends to join. The free-trade area should prove particularly attractive to businessmen who set up plants in the 200-acre customs-free zone around Shannon Airport in County Clare...
...nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract (wherein new employees promise their employers in writing that they will not join a union). Parker explained that he was merely "following the law as laid down by the Supreme Court. I had no latitude of discretion in expressing views of my own." Adding to his troubles: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People feared that the North Carolina-born judge...
...Roman Catholic of the Maronite rite, has accepted the Eisenhower Doctrine, Moslems have become increasingly dominated by a persecution complex. Going to Damascus has become a deliberate act of defiance against the government of Chamoun and his 75-year-old, waterpipe-smoking Premier, Sami Solh. "O Chamoun, Lebanon must join the Arab Union!" chanted thousands of Lebanese last week in Damascus, as Nasser beamed down from his balcony. Replied Nasser: "As I see my brothers from sister Lebanon standing side by side with their brothers from the region of Syria and the region of Egypt, I feel I am witnessing...
Penholders & Prohibition. For all his other-worldly air, Morarji Desai has been described by fellow Indians as "a lotus with a steel stem." The son of a struggling schoolteacher, he was well started on a brilliant civil-service career under the British when he resigned his job to join Gandhi's independence movement in 1930. Of the 17 years between his resignation and India's independence, Desai spent more than six in British prisons. With independence, he emerged as Congress Party strongman in Bombay State, won a reputation as a hard-boiled politician who never forgot an injury...