Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeking a portrait of a great statesman, a national or international prime mover. What we are seeking is a close, fast-moving picture of a man essentially doing what he is supposed to do, under the Constitution, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives: representing the people of his district and, as a byproduct of that, trying to get himself re-elected." So wrote TIME Associate Editor Champ Clark early this month to TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, as he outlined the reporting requirements for this week's cover story on Michigan Congressman Charles Chamberlain. Writer...
...constitution, the Malagasy, as the inhabitants of Madagascar are known, took the general at his word. In Tananarive cannons boomed 123 times to proclaim that Madagascar had become the first French territory to opt for independence within the French community. "We are no longer a colony," cried Prime Minister Philibert Tsiranana. "We are a free nation, and we will have a national anthem and a national flag...
...nation that feels itself menaced on all sides by Arab nations sworn to its destruction, so ugly an episode might have been disregarded or forgotten. But six weeks after the Sinai invasion, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion publicly confirmed the massacre of Kfar Kassim's villagers "coming home in all innocence" and led Parliament in a solemn expression of contrition. The government paid indemnity to the victims' families ($2,500 to $3,500), brought the killers to court. Last week, after a trial that lasted through 102 sittings and took 5,000 pages of evidence, a special military...
Actor Tracy, who bears a certain physical resemblance to Mayor Curley in his political prime, plays the part with more Celtic charm than a carload of leprechauns. The Last Hurrah could easily become one of the biggest sentimental successes since Going My Way left the public quivering like one vast harp...
...number of complex, minute structural changes. Ironically, the teeth-such as are left of them -become more resistant to decay in later life. On empirical evidence, Shakespeare anticipated microanatomy when he said that the oldster is "sans taste," for the average number of taste buds is 208 during the prime of life, but only 88 after...