Word: prise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James; they both require externals, techniques and, above all, the same passionate interest in the matter at hand. Your Flower Drum Song issue has all of these. The story has such accuracy, good writing and warmth that even those of us closely connected with the enter prise and terribly jealous of everything concerning it are delighted with the way it has made us look...
France will set off its first atom bomb next year, the Paris business magazine Entreprise reported last week. Crowed Entre prise: "This will permit us to enter the 'atomic club' before membership is closed. Great Britain must resign itself to no longer being the sole nuclear partner of the U.S." From France's Defense Ministry came proud confirmation that work on the French bomb "is quite far along and we may expect tests in the near future...
James Paul Mitchell, 56, Secretary of Labor, took over in October 1953, when Union Leader Martin Durkin resigned in a dispute about Taft-Hartley law changes. Mitchell turned out to be the biggest sur prise in the Cabinet and is now rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since...
...same understandable sort of sur prise and fear distorted much of the commentary on the bomb through the Western world last week. President Eisenhower kept his voice even and his answer matter-of-fact when he was asked about the March i explosion at his press conference. It was quite clear, he said, that this time something must have happened that we had never experienced before, and must have surprised and astonished the scientists. But Eisenhower's evenness of tone was lost when unnerved editorial writers in Britain and the U.S. seized on the words "surprised"' and "astonished...
...Best Sir: Here's one reader who jumped for joy when he read of the English education of Chicago Newsman Ernie Hill's stepson Jona than prise to [TIME, learn that Nov. 2]. "six of It the comes as best"- no six sur wal lops with the headmaster's cane - work wonders with a boy too long exposed to progressive education in U.S. schools...