Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyndon Johnson, Senate Majority Leader, in a blast in the coal-mining center of Welch (pop. 6,850), called on West Virginia to elect two new Democratic Senators to replace its Republicans. He charged that the G.O.P. is running against Old Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, because they know they "can beat poor old Gene Debs, because he is dead and buried. But," cried Johnson, "they can't beat unemployment, they can't beat sickness and disease, and they can't beat Khrushchev by resurrecting a dead man-and a dead issue-and kicking him around...
Fifty-six years ago Mike Menshikov was born in a small town just outside Moscow. He entered college when he was twenty-two to study economics and recalls that "at the time I entered college, I didn't know what would become of me after five years." His interest in economics, however, led him to write his thesis on food-stuffs and world trade, a field he was later to specialize in. He took his course in the evening, and during the day worked in a cold storage plant. He graduated from the Moscow Economic Institute...
Earlier in the afternoon Truman castigated the Administration's foreign policy. "I don't know who is making our policy," he stated, "and I would like to find...
...Miami's School of Medicine and its associated Jackson Memorial Hospital. Says Dr. Crampton sagely: "If a man has sense enough to realize that in many different ways he is not what he was ten years ago, and acts accordingly, he is 'way ahead of the game. Know your limitations-adapt yourself to them-and enjoy your privileges to the utmost." For such an old man, Dr. Crampton has coined the word "eugeron"-which well describes...
...each other." The Stritch-Ameche romance has none of the sogginess of musicomedy librettos, but it has their dogged, round-the-mulberry-bush complications. Despite nice up-to-date frills and out-of-date furbelows, Goldilocks has neither a 1958 freshness nor a 1913 charm; it has chiefly Broadway know...