Word: ken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bold Venture, which was a radio vehicle for the late Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, is a carefully glued blend of sex and speed. Where Highway Patrol's Broderick Crawford roars about in a squad car and Whirlybirds' Ken Toby and Craig Hill soar through the sky in a helicopter, Actor Dane Clark as Shannon plows through the waves in a 62-ft. sloop. Dockside waits his nubile ward, played by Joan Marshall, whom Writer David Friedkin describes as a "lovely, whimsical, gay, arrant broad in love with a virile guy-only he doesn't want...
...Ways & Means Committee, co-protector with Appropriations of the House's constitutional power to originate all money bills. Son of a small-town banker. Mills lives in Kensett, which by legend got its name when natives told Missouri Pacific surveyors, trying to decide where to build a station: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Since 1939 he has represented the hill-and-dale Second District, which also boasts such place names as Morning Sun, Evening Shade and Oil Trough. Stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), gracious Wilbur Mills has a first-rate fiscal mind...
Although I realize that international diplomacy may be beyond the ken of the ordinary citizen, I wish someone would explain what cause is served by so-called "fact-finding" expeditions and "good will" tours to unfriendly countries. Surely U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree, who had to flee for his life in Baghdad [Dec. 29], was not there of his own volition. What facts were disclosed in the go-minute meeting between Mr. Rountree and General Kassem that were not already known to U.S. Ambassador Gallman and which could have been transmitted to Washington in a diplomatic pouch...
...first half, which ended with the score 20 to 20, neither side was able to muster an effective offense. Sophomore Bob Bowditch scored the first two Crimson points on a jump shot after Ken Ratzan had given Amherst the lead with three minutes gone...
...West Virginia's Fourth District, onetime Adlai Stevenson Campaign Aide Ken Hechler defeated 83-year-old Dr. Will E. Neal, one of whose boasts was that he had delivered almost half of his constituents...