Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing a vest as usual, Dwight Eisenhower seemed to be the coolest person in the room. To a question implying that he "cannot refuse to run in 1956," he replied crisply: "That is a decision I have to reach for myself-some time." Asked if Congress should stay in session longer to act on his program, Ike responded with expression of mock horror, then grinned and said: "No, I just think that Congress, when it wants to, can do an awful lot in a very short time, and I am hopeful that they will do so." Coolly, the President answered...
...hillbilly music. If he could just have a radio to listen to the comin'-round-the-mountaineers, Johnson hinted, it would help relax him. The doctors considered and agreed. Johnson got his radio, and was soon listening to every news broadcast and political commentator that he could reach on the dial. There are few things that he loathes more than hillbilly music...
Hallowed Deaths. In his novels of that period, Malraux preached that men's willingness to die for a cause gave their lives meaning. "Men who are joined together in a common hope, a common quest, have access, like men whom love unites, to regions they could never reach left to themselves." The problem, said Malraux, is human dignity. "Man can have no pride if he doesn't know why he is working." His heroes die, but each dies for "what in his time was charged with the deepest meaning and the greatest hope ... a death saturated with this...
...Neither Midwestern heat nor blustery Kansas winds on the Wichita Country Club course could throw Uruguay's Fay Crocker off her game long enough to let any other competitor get within reach of the U.S. Women's National Open golf championship. Second and third behind the steady Uruguayan's 299 came Mary Lena Faulk and Louise Suggs, both with 303. Only former Champion Patty Berg fired a single sub-par round, but she still finished fourth with...
...membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations; if accepted, it will come in with a circulation of about 2,230,000, its average for the first six months of 1955. But its newsstand growth has been so fast (only 30,000 readers subscribe by mail) that Confidential expects to reach its circulation claim in next year's audit...