Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always reluctant to take a hand in politics on a partisan, partywide basis, would be even less likely to help in the next two years. That left Nixon as the functional political head of the Republican Party, yet he would have to walk carefully to avoid stepping out of line with Ike, whose good will he would need now more than ever...
...overwhelming majority of the key reporters and pundits who write the day-to-day political stories for U.S. newspapers, radio and television are down-the-line liberal Democrats. To their professional credit, they did not permit their pro-Democratic bias to control their predictions of what would happen on Election Day. In general, the reporting-punditing press previewed the 1958 elections with considerable prescience and quite a lot of caution. They had the trend right, but in the main they were either unwilling to make specific forecasts or they underestimated the size of the Democratic sweep...
British doctors had been debating how to dramatize the cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and such premature deaths, and Dr. Lister knew just what to do. On the death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive...
...airlines the jet age has already dawned over the Atlantic with the start of Pan American World Airways' service to Paris.* But for countless Americans, it will not arrive until American Airlines President Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 59, a tough, hardworking boss who has built his line into the nation's biggest, sends an American jet winging off on the first transcontinental jet flight, two months hence...
Brown has a predominantly sophomore team with an excellent goalie, mediocre backs, and a below-par line. John Master, the Bruin goalie, is supposed to be the finest sophomore prospect Brown has come up with in many years. Dick Press and Bill Stamper are the fullbacks, but behind them there is no one to fill in. Captain Dick Ramsden will head a halfback line along with Sal Rena and Foster Ballard, while Arnie Hetzer, Howard Whitcomb, Bill Vandentorn, Bill Pearson, and Al Tapper make up the forward line...