Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, dour, cigar-raddling William Langer made life miserable for North Dakota's regular Republican organization, caterwauling his way to victory as a member of a theoretically Republican faction known as the Non-Partisan League, and voting anti-Republican every chance he got. But in 1956 the Non-Partisan League split up, part of it going over to the Democratic Party, the other part joining the regular Republicans. In that breakup, the Republicans got saddled with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted...
...poor performance of their students has proved the educationists wrong. U.S. high school students are plain ignorant of things grammar school students would have known a generation ago. Years of barren discussion courses in English have made a whole generation chronically incoherent in the English language. Cut off from any but the most obvious contact with his tradition, e.g., an occasional project visit to the local courthouse, the student has lost his sense of history. Surely the history of the Crusades can give a young American a better grasp of the. problems implicit in the U.N. or NATO than dressing...
...born and reared in the Arkansas university town of Fayetteville (pop. 18,069). First member of the Stone family to go to Arkansas was Ed Stone's grandfather, taciturn Stephen K. Stone, who managed to amass such a fortune in real estate and merchandise that he was known as "the Richest Man in Washington County." His sons, including Ed's father, Benjamin Hicks Stone, were raised in Southern comfort, so well off none of them troubled to work very hard...
...only somewhat to the right of Liberal Tom Stokes's views. Yet Texas-born Bill White, who labels himself an "independent," also feels an affinity for the Senate's dominant Southern conservatives, many of whom, e.g., House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, he has known since he went to Washington in 1933 to cover Texas affairs for the Associated Press...
...course, we were trying to sell a gadget to keep change in his pocket." He got a reputation for being an adman's adman, for putting small accounts on a level with big ones. He made an obscure New York bread one of the city's best known with ads showing nibbled slices and the message, "New York is eating it up." Among the agency's other memorable copy: a plug for Israel's El Al airline's new, faster Britannia plane service, with a picture of the Atlantic Ocean one-fifth torn away ("Starting...