Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handed out silver dollars, White House match books and ballpoint pens to the three children of Democratic Congressman Jimmy Roosevelt, who came for their first look at the office their grandfather occupied for twelve years...
...have risen from factory and mine. "The day of the cloth cap in the Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's glamor, but he has earned solid respect. He has kept his party fully behind NATO and, though infatuated with the notion of disengagement, has also kept his party behind the allied position in Berlin...
This was typical of his care and taste throughout the work. Never once did he say to his confreres, "See what a big noise I can make. Let's see you try to match it." He never strayed from a perfect sense of balance and ensemble. And this had the fortunate result that the violin and 'cello were never compelled to force their tone to the point of raspiness, which so often happens with an overpowering pianist. These three artists demonstrated clearly that chamber music is a collaborative rather than a competitive...
...Almeida, a foot soldier who savvies nothing of planes, much about Communism and the party line. Saying that "those who love liberty cannot agree to any dictatorial system, especially Communism," Diaz Lanz announced that he was resuming command. The dispute went before Fidel Castro, and in the ensuing shouting match, Castro confirmed that Almeida would run the air force...
Chief in Command. Olmedo's victory was no surprise. When the going is easy, the lithe, 23-year-old Peruvian with the classic Inca features can blow a match with the best of them. But his charging, slashing game stiffens under pressure, and at Wimbledon the going was tough enough to challenge his mastery. Ranged against him were Australia's nimble Rod Laver, 20, and dark-haired Roy Emerson, 22, and America's moody, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Barry MacKay. 23, Olmedo's Davis Cup teammate against Australia last winter. MacKay did not get beyond...