Word: lag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerhouse personality. When she is in front of the camera-kicking at her train and tugging at her girdle before a royal reception, or holding a running phone conversation with "Harry" about Bess's health and Margaret's press notices-the show never has a chance to lag. When she lets loose full power with such tunes as Can You Use Any Money Today? and The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball, with every syllable loud, intact and sharply enunciated, Ethel Merman is undeniably the songstress with the mostes...
...wound up his dry-run presidential administration at the Commodore with a dry-run Cabinet meeting. Among other business, he read the current drafts of his inaugural address and his State of the Union message. All present were asked for comments and memos. One notable decision: concerned over the lag in NATO's buildup, Eisenhower ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen to make a quick, fact-finding trip through Europe within ten days after the inauguration. Another decision: his inaugural outfit, announced Eisenhower, would include no top hat or tail coat. Instead...
...wide variety of emotional tones. Her part seems so loosely constructed, in fact, that it is often difficult to know just what sort of character she is playing. The whole play actually suffers from looseness; if it were not held up by two high class performers, it would probably lag badly at many spots...
...Great Lag. What was that knowledge? Among other things, said Acheson, a good Foreign Service officer must be prepared to take part in "battles with Congress." He continued: "Make no mistake about it. There is a real battle with Congress. There is a great lag in the education and information between you who know the outside world and the great mass of the American people and their elected representatives, a great lag between you who know the facts of the world and the 150 million people who really govern the U.S. . . . You must learn to take it and live with...
Aircraft production is another story entirely. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that production difficulties are forcing another stretch-out of plane deliveries. Under Secretary of the Air Force Roswell L. Gilpatric hurriedly denied any slowdown or "any major lag in the program as a whole...