Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Businessman Stuart, president of Quaker Oats Co.,* liked the house and the appointment. Last week his name went to the Senate. The son and grandson of Canadians, he has been an inveterate tourist in Canada, has made a 1,000-mile pack trip across the Canadian Rockies, fished for salmon in Newfoundland, paddled a canoe north to Hudson...
...Picasso produced two huge (32 ft. by 16 ft.) panels (opposite), painted for his own abandoned, 14th century chapel in Vallauris on the French Riviera. Picasso's War shows a team of horses pulling a hearse through seas of blood. Atop the carriage sits a monster with a pack full of corpses; his snorting horses trample the world's culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors of modern war. Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector...
...Lords, which met him almost as soon as he took the throne after the death of his father, Edward VII, in 1910. When the Lords balked at abolishing their veto powers to please the Liberals, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the King exactly what he must do: threaten to pack the Lords with 500 new peers. Inwardly kicking and bucking, George V did exactly as he was told-as the British constitutional system seemed to demand. And the House of Lords gave...
...Coronation does not exist to glorify Elizabeth. For her, it will be a grueling six hours, borne under robes and diamonds equal in weight to a full infantry pack. Her role tomorrow will be as hard and pitiless as the role of Queen itself, but Elizabeth will undoubtedly bear it with her usual quict grace...
When Karl Menninger was a reporter on the Topeka Capital, he learned to pack the "who, what, where, when & how" of a news story lead into a few short, sharp words. Then he became a psychiatrist, like his father and brother William (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), and ever since, he has found himself hearing and talking, reading and writing a jabberwocky jargon which meant different things to different experts and nothing to most laymen. Last week, Psychiatrist Menninger struck a blow for common sense and understandability in the naming of mental illness...