Word: mien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play his part in the nuclear-age fire drill. At 2:10 p.m., hatless, wearing a tan, double-breasted summer suit, he walked across the White House's south lawn, and for the first time boarded his new royal-blue and white Bell Ranger helicopter.* Serious of mien, the President strapped himself in the four-place whirlybird next to White House Secret Service Chief Jim Rowley. The aircraft rose from the lawn, hovered above a cluster of photographers, then skimmed southwestward past the Washington Monument, followed by four other copters carrying some 20 White House staffers, including...
Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of Authority to bring them to life and to shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story-the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams...
...Republican newspapers illustrated their Republican publishers' dissatisfaction with the Republican President of the U.S. Beyond that the similarity stopped. Union Leader Publisher William Loeb is a splenetic individualist for whom the description reactionary seems inexact. Daily News Publisher-Editor John S. Knight is a man of calmer mien whose estrangement from President Eisenhower is more restrained and at the same time more significant. For a report on two noteworthy journalists, see PRESS, Thunder on the Right and "That Stinking Hypocrite...
...free Government housing and low living expenses, put in 70% of their salaries to build their collection. Says Gratia: "We were always broke." But today Victor Hauge is the proud possessor of the collection's gem, an ink-on-silk painting by Northern Sung Dynasty Painter Li Lung-mien, so rare that the Japanese government has declared it a national treasure. At their home in Falls Church, Va., Osborne and Gratia can trot out genuine Ming dishes for company. Says Gratia: "We don't regret a single thing we bought-only the things we didn...
...after taxes in the past few years, the savings fell considerably short of the amount bankers estimate they need to replenish their lendable funds. In an all-out effort to pull in more savings, the bankers are revolutionizing U.S. banking methods. Gone is the old-fashioned banker of granite mien and glassy-eyed stare...