Word: patent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reminded by Stevenson's speeches of the oldtime patent medicine man who used to drive into a town, gather a crowd, and after softening them up with a funny story and a few wisecracks would harangue the crowd with spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir...
...wonderful.' " Candidate Stevenson obviously felt he had a point: little outward concern was shown by the nation as a whole for the problems of its parts (in drought-dried Holton, Kans. last week 300 people prayed in the courthouse square for rain); nor was there much patent concern for the maneuverings of Egypt's President Nasser, or for the Communist huddles of Khrushchev and Tito beside the faraway Black Sea (see FOREIGN NEWS). The U.S. has learned to live with its crises with equanimity...
...sail rather than over it, causing a "lifting" effect. It measures 120 sq. ft. v. 72 sq. ft. for a triangular sail on the same boat; with its rig it weighs 78 lbs. v. a conventional sail's 25-30 lbs. Bedford hopes to reduce the weight, patent and market a still better sail within a year...
...same. As Nehru steps out of his black Cadillac and climbs onto the speaker's platform, he is approached by women bearing wreaths. He allows one wreath to be placed around his neck, but a second later abruptly jerks it off and throws it on a table. With patent impatience he fiddles with the microphones before him, readjusting their height and position. Finally the speech begins. It is made without notes and sounds less like a political address than a passage from a stream-of-consciousness novel. Almost invariably, it will include sharp attacks on some of India...
...Switch. After two days of near chaos, a whopping G.O.P. majority voted the Powell amendment into the bill. Then, having put themselves on record with the nation's 6,000,000 Negro voters to the patent disadvantage of the Democrats, many Republicans felt free to go on record as firmly opposed to federal aid to education. To support this politically motivated position, they pointed out that the bill did not require states to take the responsibility called for by the Administration's school building program (TIME, Jan. 23). Said Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck: "This bill never...