Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public got its first direct word from a high U.S. official who had seen the President. "As a layman," said Vice President Nixon, "I would say he is in excellent spirits ... It was not a case of any inability to formulate ideas. In fact the ideas were ahead of his speech. The only problem that the President was having was a hesitancy in finding a very few words ... I noticed no slurring . . . Quite obviously, he is like a caged lion. He wants to get out there and go to work." By that time Jim Hagerty was back...
...That is a form of heart attack, as I understand it. . . . 'Cerebral' does have a connotation of something to do with the head"). Anne Wheaton's confusion was hardly less helpful than Major General Howard McC. Snyder's lofty insistence that a stroke is a "layman's word" implying brain hemorrhage or paralysis (see MEDICINE) and therefore not applicable...
More Than He Could Handle. Faubus had other qualms. The political effect of his stand was not quite what he had expected. His old boss, Sid McMath, was busy rounding up liberals to denounce what Orval had wrought. Little Rock's respected Congressman Brooks Hays, top Baptist layman (president of the Southern Baptist Convention), checked with the city's leading citizens, found them shocked and ashamed...
...Nothing counts but victories, no matter how achieved. I have searched long, diligently-and in vain-to find more than one individual who is outstanding both as an athlete and layman.* I have learned that to be a good sport in the concept of athletes and coaches one must 1) win at any cost. 2) cheat if necessary-but don't get caught, 3) feel that victory, not having fun. is important...
Mismarriage, Miscarriage. First problem is to try to decide why a woman aborts. Says many a layman after taking