Word: loneliest
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Americans are said to be lonely people, and they are loneliest of all in the late watches of the night-when the inebriate becomes sentimental, the salesman paces his hotel room, the insomniac looks through his medicine cabinet. Radio fills the lonely time with all-night music, but television has moved more uncertainly. It has the brash irrelevancies of Steve Allen, the late late movies, the fast-talking pitchman promising a better, lanolin-coated world for $1 down and $1 a week...
...Einstein ever did find the secret he was looking for, it rests in a legacy of notes and scribblings still to be tested by men and machines. The search for it made the last part of his voyage the loneliest part of all. Albert Einstein, who often said he could not accept the doctrine of immortality of the soul, traveled the rim of mystery and at times, he admitted, it made him feel close to God. "I assert," he once said, "that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force . . . My religion consists of a humble...
...years ago, but tiny outlaw cults, defiantly devoted to plural marriage, have gone on springing up in out-of-the-way corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...first, she had to win a battle for Sister Kenny (Ros had met her in 1940. "She looked like an M4 tank, but her eyes were the loneliest and loveliest I've ever looked into"). Ros became a passionate supporter of the Kenny method of treating infantile paralysis. She begged every one she knew to help her make a movie about the Australian nurse. She finally wore down Charles Koerner, then production head of RKO Radio, and browbeat Dudley Nichols into directing the picture. It was a financial failure, but Ros still ranks...
...hard-eyed writing on everything from sports and stuffed shirts to women and war. "Any man is in difficulty," writes Bachelor Cannon, "if he falls in love with a woman he can't knock down with the first punch." After Korea, he reported that "combat soldiers are the loneliest people in the world. What a man does in a period of war he carries around inside of him forever." When Herman Hickman, Yale's 300-lb. football coach resigned, Cannon began a column: "There is enough room in one of Herman Hickman's suits for an average...