Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milions of dollars in scholarship money now going to alleviate the pain of the upper middle class should go to high-ability students who are in real need," Monro noted. The average family income of scholarship applicants at Harvard is $6,900--and these family incomes are rising faster than the average national income...
...hand to meet Harold Macmillan's gleaming Comet 4 jet airliner at Washington's MATS Air Terminal were Vice President Richard Nixon and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter (who sat waiting on a metal stool to ease the pain of his arthritis). They hustled the British party to the White House behind screaming sirens. Next morning Macmillan and President Eisenhower drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital, where Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had been pacing his sunroom floor awaiting their arrival...
Like most of his famous World War II gestures of defiance, De Gaulle's action was calculated to inflict a minimum of real pain but a maximum of bureaucratic annoyance upon his allies. The actual force involved-some 30,000 tons of naval shipping, including a single aircraft carrier-was militarily insignificant, plays little part in NATO's Mediterranean war plans, which turns around the U.S. Sixth Fleet and its powerful nuclear punch. For public consumption, virtually every Western foreign office took a stiff-upper-lip attitude. So did NATO's General Lauris Norstad (whom De Gaulle...
...show. Portraiture is Chaliapin's favored ground, but he tackles many things with equal zest, from laughing ballet dancers to glowing landscapes and stark religious works. Among his most recent canvases: a shockingly dramatic Crucifixion, as seen from the foot of the Cross, with knees twisted in pain and a face cloaked in shadow...
...Frontal Attack." The indictment caused a wince of pain from the department because the trustbusters had begun their campaign against the highly regarded International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and not against some out-of-favor union such as Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. But First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers...