Word: often
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During his appearance before the McClellan committee, Dave Beck was to drone out the prepared statement time after time, although his shrill combativeness often brought him perilously close to breaking the routine. "Do you," asked Chairman McClellan at one point, "regard your privileges under the Fifth Amendment as transcending your duty and obligations to the laboring men of this country who belong to your union?" Beck's rare-roast-beef face turned an even deeper shade, his head shot forward, his lips moved as he shaped an outraged reply. Just in time, his sad-faced lawyer, Arthur Condon, drove...
Back at the Compound. Beck often spends a quiet evening with Dorothy, a gentle, grey-haired woman who suffers from high blood pressure. Beck likes to read ("I've read nearly everything ever written about Napoleon"; "I just got through Citadel by William White of the N.Y. Times, and incidentally, it's a hell of a condemnation of the excesses in congressional investigations"), and he also enjoys television. He dotes on big-money quiz shows. "I do fairly good on some of those questions," says Beck, in a rueful comparison with his answers on John McClellan...
...helicopters were purchased chiefly to facilitate the President's trips from the White House to National Airport, which often involve delays and tie-ups in Washington traffic stopped to permit him to pass. But the golf question had been left hanging by Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty last month, when he said he would not rule out the possibility that the President might some time use a helicopter to go to Burning Tree for golf...
...frantic rush to catapult its horse-and-buggy economy into the 20th century, Spain for six years has gone on a Soviet-like factory-building spree. But planning was poor; there was often a lack of raw materials, modern machines and technical know-how to keep the showplace plants running at planned capacity. Power also is short. Spain depends on hydroelectric power for three-quarters of its supply, and last year's drought held output to a low 13.75 billion kwh. Faced with such bottlenecks, the Pegaso factories have turned out only 4,000 heavy-duty trucks since...
...cult of life, as the Hemingway people's worship of the bull ring suggests (it was perhaps no real mistake in identity when, Lael Tucker notes with pleasure, her husband once was mistaken for "Papa" Hemingway at Spain's Pamplona ring). And so a story that is often deeply moving is also overlaid with words and gestures that have the air of gruesome parody, as when Lael Tucker says to her husband in the last moments: "I love you I love you please die." Or when Wertenbaker with one hand holds his bleeding surgical wound (an abscess...