Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also hits upon just the right way of moving and talking. His is a well-observed and, at the end, even sympathetic piece of acting. Only one minor cavil could be raised: one or two of his lines cannot be understood. As the two policemen, William Gurton and Charles Potter are somewhat eclipsed by McKirdy's role and performance, but they nonetheless acquit themselves with credit...
Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey denounced the Administration's "pseudo optimism," proposed a special agency for coordinating U.S. scientific and technical programs (Michigan's G.O.P. Senator Charles Potter went Humphrey one better, urged a Cabinet-level Scientific Progress Agency). Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington demanded a special session of Congress, criticized the President for being "paternalistically vague...
...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...
...Influence. In measurable terms, Graham's impact on the big city was slight (TIME, July 8), but a growing number of clergymen think that the incalculable hidden influence may have been great. The overall effect of the crusade, says the Rev. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the New York Protestant Council, has been "magnificent"-"Billy and his team have done a tremendous amount for New York. Everywhere there is a quickening of the spirit-in the churches and out of them. And I know the long-range results will surprise a lot of people who were skeptical...
...black figures with a sharp instrument of some sort, and white and dark red were used as accessory colors. In about 530 B.C. the red-figure technique was introduced, with the background painted black and the figures left in the original reddish color of the vase. Painter and potter worked as a team. The potter threw his shape on the wheel and handed it over to the painter, who put his design on it while it was still in a dry-mud unfired state...