Word: juiciest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berkeley. With 18,981 students registered last fall and a solid ranking among the top schools in the U.S., Berkeley is the biggest and juiciest chunk of the California orange. Berkeley's trees have had time to grow, and its faculty, mature and luminous, includes six Nobel laureates (among them: Radiation Laboratory Physicists Ernest Lawrence and Edwin McMillan, Chemist Glenn Seaborg). Partisans compare Berkeley, not always defensively, with Harvard, fairly assess their school as stronger in the physical sciences, less impressive in the humanities...
...Angeles airport and took her to her hotel. No flashbulbs, no pressagents; nobody knew who she was and nobody cared. But 48 hours later she had MGM's top brass in a corporate rattle, and into her lap had fallen a tentative offer of the juiciest part the studio had to offer. And how did she do it? She went to a cocktail party...
...Father Jacques's life became busier than ever. "Priests," said the local Communist leader, "are always on the side of rich men." But the parishioners of Giadinh knew better, seeing their priest trudging wearily on his daily errands and returning to his tumbledown vicarage riddled with termites. Their juiciest fruits and biggest duck eggs were reserved for the father's table...
...wrong. The job: investigating labor racketeering. The starting point: the mighty (1,400,000 members) International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its activities in the Pacific Northwest, home bailiwick of Teamsters' President Dave Beck (who was conspicuous last week by his continued sojourn in Europe). Prospect: the juiciest congressional hearing of the year...
Although the twisting plot and sharp lines are constantly amusing, the acting is not. Gertrude Berg, as Abby Brewster, has the juiciest role, but she is no more than adequate. As Molly Goldberg she was ideal, and her summer stock performance of the Josephine Hull role in Solid Gold Cadillac was loudly praised; in her present fuller, more enchanting Hull role she proves mostly that she just is not Josephine Hull. Instead of being a lovable white-haired darling of great sweetness, charm, and madness, she is usually only a housewife...