Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 Clark had a rare and unique understanding of what he was looking for. The first Champ Clark, the grandfather for whom he was named, was a Missouri Congressman for 26 years, for eight years was a powerful Speaker of the House, in 1912 was the strongest contender for the Democratic presidential nomination against Woodrow Wilson...
...group of escorting Iowa politicians, Ike told one of his rare jokes. It seems that there was a little boy who lived hard by the missile test center at Cape Canaveral and was asked by his teacher if he could count. He replied, "Oh yes-nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, nuts." Ike laughed loudly at his own joke...
...with a cocktail glass in one hand, or flashing his benign smile as he shakes your hand, you've caught Mikhail "Mike" Menshikov at a rare moment...
...school's founder Tanguy found a substitute for the loving father he had never known: Father Pardo "was not a saint in the strict sense. But he was a real man, which is almost as rare...
...chief virtues about the House dining halls has been the abundance of catsup to cover bare mutton or veal. The Central Kitchen creation seldom are inspiring and meat in its naked glory can be very discouraging. But catsup is now regrettably rationed and cranberry sauce is as rare these days as caviar. The rather gelatinous stuffing which dresses up pork as well as fowl provides no real substitute for the jelly on chicken or turkey...