Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have set out to establish themselves as the chief "democratic alternative" to the Congress Party. Their professed aim is to climb to power peacefully, capturing India "seat by seat and state by state." Careful not to make direct attacks on popular Jawaharlal Nehru, the Communists portray him as the lone healthy voice in his own party, piously urge him to cleanse Congress Party ranks of anti-socialists "as Christ drove the money-changers from the temple...
...signing the report, at least two of the committee members, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy and New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, took their political lives in their hands in their heavily industrial states. The lone dissident was Michigan's Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, for 18 years an official of a pipe fitters' local, who argued that organized labor could clean its own house, heavy-handedly suggested that it was time for the McClellan committee to go out of business. He was promptly and loudly supported by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who called...
Kraft Television Theater: Borrowing freely from Balzac's tale of the strange friendship between a lone soldier and a panther in the desert, Playwright Simon Wincelberg almost captured the novelist's eerie mood as well. In The Sea Is Boiling Hot, the panther became a stoical Japanese infantryman (Sessue Hayakawa) marooned alone on a Pacific island in World War II. His unwelcome visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie...
...brought Owner Ralph McCutcheon about $500,000 in eight years. His Fury fee: $1,500 a show. A saddlebred, eleven-year-old stallion standing 15 lands high, Fury has borne some of Hollywood's most famous bodies. He carried Elizabeth Taylor in Giant, Clark jable in Lone Star and Joan Crawford n Johnny Guitar...
...teamwork, J. Paul Getty is the last of a vanishing breed: an autocratic tycoon who runs his own show, has nothing but contempt for the modern, hemmed-in executive and the committee concept of running a business. "Most of the people in the top management of American business," says Lone Wolf Getty, "are promoted clerks, engineers and salesmen. I like Benjamin Franklin's advice: if you want it done correctly, do it yourself. I do it all myself. How many others are there like...