Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," said the announcer, his tone lush and breathless, "Esther just doesn't know what to do! She feels that she owes her husband Jack nothing; he hurt her in every way one person can. But now he's in need; he's alone and sick! What would you advise Esther if you were Ma? Well, Esther went over to see Ma, and now at about half past 5 in the late afternoon we find them on Ma's front porch. Listen...
...Negro pro from New York with an unusual knack for teaching his rigidly defined theory of tennis. The game to Llewellyn is a ruthless exercise in geometry. For every shot, he argues, there is one proper return, one proper angle to aim for. "You don't play the person, you just play the board as if you were a machine. Tennis looks genteel," he adds, "but it's the meanest, most vicious game I know...
...Ceylon, who "brought glee to Democrats, made Republicans glower when he admitted that he could not "call off" the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (TIME, Aug. 12). Said Dulles of this incident: "Now, the question of the selection of any particular person depends primarily upon whether he has integrity of character, whether he has a sharp and quick intelligence, and whether he is genuinely devoted to the public service. We believe that out of those three qualities can be made a competent and efficient ambassador worthy to represent and able to defend...
...person of flesh and blood and heart would, I think, under the circumstances of the case, have made the kind of statement that he did. I'm confident that, even if it was in certain technical respects perhaps not correct, there will be an understanding of it on the part of the authorities in Cuba because it was a very human thing to do, and, as I say, we want our ambassadors to be human people...
Laura: Not my old man, my father! He was a fine person too . . . well known in his profession...