Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show that captured more viewers. Last week the broadcasters learned from pulse-taker A.C. Nielsen Co. a crucial fact the viewing public knew a long time ago. As many as 14 times within the hour, Nielsen deduced, audiences switch from Sullivan to Allen and back. The average viewer remains "loyal" to one of the shows only four minutes at a stretch. The discovery makes a mockery of overall ratings for the one-hour variety shows, since the "defeated" program may well have captured more viewers than the "winner" at any one of several peak moments. The other sponsor-sobering conclusion...
Brave & Tragic. The nation soon grew accustomed to having its sons disappear into the woods for mysterious campfire powwows, struggle with all sorts of exotic knots, make fire without matches, proclaim that they were trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. An occasional adult scoutmaster complained. "The man in charge of a group of boy hikers," wrote one, "has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus. There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death...
Isolated Man. Still loyal to his throttled dreams of dominating the Arab world, Strongman Nasser was seeking them now in a new direction. He was trying to win himself back in the good graces of Britain, while his Voice of the Arabs radio turned on an unprecedented campaign of hatred against the U.S., which had saved his neck during the Anglo-French invasion but was now effectively curbing his ambitions under the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...before the Czar; instead she sees his back in a railway station as he is about to make his exit from history. Another Arapov is a captain in a crack cavalry regiment, and one aspect of Russia's tragedy is seen in the inner conflict of this passionately loyal man who, amid mutiny and despair, does not know what his new loyalties ought to be. The doomed family has its socialist, too-idealistic Nicolas Arapov. When the soldiery, whom he pities, pitilessly murder their Czarist officers, he is shocked at their cruelty, even though he has already been...
...Supreme Court in the case of sometime University of New Hampshire Lecturer Paul Sweezy), had given the Supreme Court a scorching rarely heard north of Mason and Dixon. The Supreme Court, cried Wyman, had "set the U.S. back 25 years in its attempt to make certain that those loyal to a foreign power cannot create another Trojan horse here." The U.S. Constitution, said Wyman, had been "tortured out of all rational historical proportion" in recent Supreme Court decisions, and the language of the Sweezy opinion itself was "pure sophistry...