Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three layer cake," the book abounds in silly metaphors, terming Christ "the penicillin of Salvation" and the Incarnation "God's rescue operation." His attempts at jazzy writing are equally dismal, whether describing a "Warm Fire" home (one in which "the smallest children pray as naturally as they reach for the peanut butter") or declaring that the Israelites, with "breaks. . . went through all the red lights to the Promised Land...
...presenting the names of these eight, the F.B.I. would allow church authorities to reach a decision without the publicity of a Congressional investigation. If the churches remove these proven communists, the loyal ministers who constitute the other 99 per cent of Boston religious leaders will remain free to speak out on any issue without fear of accusation. Permitting the churches to take the initiative will reaffirm the ability of church leaders to check any communist threat...
...midweek, Majority Leader Bob Taft ordered daily sessions (instead of a session every other day). The Republican Policy Committee laid down an immediate schedule: after tidelands, economic controls, and then Hawaii statehood. (Still without a definite place on the schedule: revision of the Taft-Hartley law.) When appropriations bills reach the floor, the schedule may be disrupted, for they will get the right...
...Malcolm G. Jones is an executive who keeps his eye on the clock. "When you reach my age," says he, "time starts running out. You want to meet a challenge and wrap it up, so that when you put your chips down, you can say, 'that's one I did.' " Last week, after 24 years with the Du Pont Co., the last two as director of synthetic fiber sales, Malcolm Jones went off to meet a new challenge-the chance to "run my own show." He became president of Manhattan's Robbins Mills, Inc., maker...
...collection indicates a deliberate relapse into maturity; a new horizon shows both in waist and vision, along with such signal quirks as a grumpy dislike for opinionated young men and a difficulty in reading the phone book without glasses. There is even a blunt admission that when a man reaches his 50s he inclines to cast aside his jackboots and reach for his slippers...