Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politician with an eye on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...LeMay; General Samuel E. Anderson, chief of the Air Materiel Command; retired Brigadier General La Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice chief of SAC; Lieut. General Roger Ramey (ret.), former commander of the Fifth Air Force in Japan; Lieut. General William Tunner, MATS commander; Lieut. General John Gerhart, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs; General Henry ("Hank") Everest, commander...
Passing through Poland late in the week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson was asked what he thought of the agricultural-circle idea, responded that in the U.S. "we believe in the strength of the free market and of profit as a driving force in production." When a Polish journalist raised the question of the crop supports that produce the U.S.'s whopping annual food surpluses, Benson was obliged to make some embarrassing qualifications about the free market and subsidized U.S. agriculture. But nobody in Poland doubted for a moment that Wladyslaw Gomulka would cheerfully exchange his own farm...
...fight like a man. She could not get a passport on her own, could not buy, sell or manage property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected to feminine wage earning as a "North American custom...
...arts of Western journalism, often send out crisp, brief, seemingly impartial stories, but the party line is never missing: SALT PRODUCTION UP IN CHINA, headlined the Iraq Times, a Hsinhua user, over a recent dispatch. Often the line is tweezered in with surgical care. During President Eisenhower's late-summer tour of Europe, Hsinhua accounts sounded impersonal, but emphasized policy conflicts among the NATO allies: "The appearance of Eisenhower and Macmillan on TV was meant to be a show of 'cordiality' and 'solidarity' . . . yet even in such a public performance, Macmillan spoke at the beginning...