Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...query about Republican prospects in 1954 drew a smile and a quick reply from the President. It is just as simple as looking at the palm of your hand, he said. If the Republican Party can show as its record over the next two years a progressive, sane program of accomplishment, which takes care of the welfare and interest of all our people and doesn't give itself away to any group or class, and if that program is properly advertised, the G.O.P. will be back with a very greatly enhanced majority...
...Governor of Guam: Ford Q. (for Quint) Elvidge, 60, Seattle lawyer. When Interior Secretary Douglas McKay asked him whether he would accept the governorship, Elvidge protested that he was not ready to "retire to a South Sea island and sit under a palm tree"; he agreed to take the job only after McKay assured him that it was "a tough assignment." What makes it tough is that the Navy and the civilian administrators are waging a cold war to decide who is going to run the island...
...ever find time or money to travel so high, wide and handsomely as 29-year-old Tennis Star Victor Seixas (No. 2 m U.S. rankings), who is semi-retired but not rich. In the past twelve months, Tourist Seixas has visited (in the order of his major appearances) Miami, Palm Beach, Havana, Bermuda, London, Wimbledon, Montreal, Southampton Newport, Boston, Forest Hills, Los Angeles Mexico City, Honolulu, Auckland and Melbourne. A trip to South America in 1948, to South Africa in 1950 and wartime duty in Japan (as a test pilot for the Air Service Command) round...
...globe-trotting Vic took his pretty wife Dolly Ann along got feted in the most fashionable hostelries, was well reimbursed for what few tabs he picked up-and earned no reportable income. Last week Vic and Dolly Ann dropped in at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also on hand, amidst palm-shrouded splendor, for the first annual Caribe Hilton (Hotel) Invitation Tournament were creaky (39) but top-ranked Gardnar Mulloy, Art Larsen (No. 3) and Billy Talbert (No. 6). As usual, they came to play a little tennis and also just to play. Their daily regimen was elegantly simple: breakfast...
...Dusen, the Christian church was "the one resourceful, untiring, dauntless ministrant to human need-human need of all kinds." The old-fashioned picture of the missionary as a "well-intentioned but rather commonplace preacher, a Bible in one hand and an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype. The typical Christian mission today is a center of three or four buildings-a hospital, a school, a church-from which a team of co-workers ("minister, doctor, nurse, school superintendent and teacher...