Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week LeRoy Collins again struck a statesmanlike pose, called for "bold, creative, constructive leadership"-and brought forth a scheme for nullifying the rule of law on civil rights issues. Collins urged the U.S. Congress, in its closing hours, to pass a "moratorium" law, forbidding U.S. courts to issue desegregation orders for the next six months. Collins could well afford to spend his time advising on national civil rights policy. He has no desegregation problem at home; there is not the slightest possibility that a Negro child will attend school with whites in Florida this year...
...will sound out the other 19 republics in the hemisphere, and, if acceptable, set up a working group in Washington by late September to draw up an outline development program; any meeting of Presidents would follow later. With that settled, Dulles and Kubitschek took time out to pose for pictures...
...garden was "rediscovered" when Salvador Dali journeyed there from Rome to pose in an ogre's mouth (opposite) while conversing with a white cat. Research by Italian and English scholars indicates that, far from being a surrealist chamber of horrors, the garden was originally a rather solemn effort to combine the wonders of the ancient world with figures from a pagan sacred grove. With sphinxes on either side of the entrance to give fair warning, Vicino Orsini did all he could to create the impression that some otherworldly spirit had brought the strange stone figures into existence, left...
...load up at the souvenir shop on bric-a-brac bearing the ducal coat of arms, the men can attend a peepshow called "Ten Beautiful Models in Color and 3-D." Finally, for the benefit of all, there is the duke himself, always around to greet his "guests," to pose for pictures, sign autographs and even judge skiffle contests. "One is," says the duke matter-of-factly, "one of the attractions...
Mike Stepovich, happy as a sourdough with a new-found nugget, turned to leave, stopped to sign autographs for well-wishers, then stepped outside to pose for pictures and some hugs-and-backslap horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman...