Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impressed by the danger, Ike stopped complaining about the Secret Service. When the service insisted on closing a tourist observation tower atop Cemetery Ridge on the Gettysburg Battlefield whenever he is at the farm, he made no objection. A marksman, standing on the tower with a high-powered rifle, could...
For one thing, the Editors realize that their elders have probably lost the genius of spontaneous good times. Bearing the world's weight (and possibly the expense of our education) for twenty-five years has, perhaps, dulled the sense of merriment that allows one to seek out his own amusement...
The most authoritative canons of taste will not defend the dining hall staffs in their war against Bermuda shorts. When worn no longer than twenty-three inches from the waist and no shorter than two inches above a clean kneecap, even Brooks Brothers will advertise shorts in their store windows...
Only two of Ike's previous vetoes were of major bills. In 1953 he vetoed an attempt to end the 20% excise tax on movie admissions. Last year he vetoed a 5% postal and civil-service pay raise, partly because Congress had refused to finance it with higher postal...
¶ Testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Emily Davie, editor of the star-spangled documentary history of the U.S., Profile of America, revealed the latest splurge of Washington nonsense. Though the U.S. Information Agency reported that the book has been the most popular U.S. history it has ever distributed abroad...