Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cancer of the mouth and pharynx, rare in the West as compared with cancer elsewhere in the body, is far commoner, both absolutely and proportionately, in Southeast Asia...
...Miss Baez's in several of their duets. Her legitimate folksongs were as exciting as her illegitimate songs were funny. Without trying to define just what it is that makes a folksinger better than the usual, finer than professional, suffice it to say that she can communicate a rare and beautiful sadness...
Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A rare blending of passion and grace makes for one of the best love stories in years...
...territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation on its own. When the time came to vote on the territory...
...Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when he promptly opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension of excess profits taxes. In a rare move, House Republican leadership bypassed Reed's committee. Commented one Democrat: "Mr. Reed has been in the minority so long that bucking the White House is an unbreakable habit with...