Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly transformed in effect from luxury to necessity. This happened when the Bureau of Labor Statistics decided that TV sets belonged on the list of the hundreds of items it uses to compile its cost-of-living index. Three years later, by BLS "decree," automatic laundry service and biscuit mix also became necessities. It is easily conceivable that in time the same road will be taken by air conditioning, electric blankets, power steering, and a thousand other amenities. This is the familiar old American process of raising the standard of living...
...number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
Credentials: Big (6 ft., 195 Ibs.), warm and friendly ("Just call me Frank"), a corn-shucking orator whose words cascade like bursts of fireworks, he adds a rich helping of religion to every speech ("If a man's religion and politics don't mix, there is something wrong with his politics"). Close friend of Evangelist Billy Graham, likes to preach sermons in churches as well as halls. For the Eisenhower Administration his lines are something less than religious. e.g., the Administration is "a fantastic political Disneyland . . . half-informed, with a half-thought-out program, half-carried-out, half...
...vast crowd, they gathered in front of City Hall. A Communist official tried to speak to them from the top of a public-address truck. A group of youths scrambled up onto the truck and began manhandling the Communist; most of the workers did not mix in; neither did the onlooking cops. Then a whisper went through the crowd: the workers' delegation was back in town and had been arrested...
...that: "I've been given credit for stuff I don't do. I don't even divide people into the tough and easy. It's never the same. With Willie Mays, for example, I don't put on anything special. I just try to mix up the pitches on him. I can't pinpoint what I pitch. I pitch the same to everybody-low and away, or high and tight...