Word: reading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have read with admiration the story of the Connecticut General building (Sept. 16). You compressed a tremendous amount of information into a short space and accurately reflected the character of our new office...
...grimly real: a segregationist mob had ruled Little Rock for an ugly moment in U.S. history. Now the face of the law was that of a young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School. Little Rock was a name known wherever men could read newspapers and listen to radios, a symbol to be distorted in Moscow, misinterpreted in New Delhi, painfully explained in London. A great issue had been joined between law and anarchy-and as always, it was the innocents, the moderates, who suffered most...
...integration v. segregation; it was the integrity of the U.S. Government and its judicial decisions. Orval Faubus had left him no choice. Said he to Brownell: "I want you to send up that proclamation. It looks like I will have to sign it, but I want "to read it again." That evening, on the sun porch of his living quarters, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation commanding all persons obstructing justice in Little Rock "to cease and desist therefrom and to disperse forthwith...
...alltime favorites: On the Sunny Side of the Street. Most of the numbers, recorded at the end of 1956, are replays of records Louis cut between '23 and '34, some of them amplified by the famous, gravelly Armstrong voice. The album is marred by a hackneyed script, read by Satchmo, but it should give latter-day jazz fans, who know him only as the aging vaudevillian, an idea of what the shouting was about...
...Russia and his fighting alongside the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. The story continues with Tito's years (1928-34) in the jails of what by then was Yugoslavia (he found prison "just like being at a university," and for the first time had the leisure to read and to argue Marxist dialectics-with his fellow convicts). Before Tito was ready for his famous World War II role as the ruthless partisan fighter against not only the German invaders but his anti-Communist countrymen, he served a tough apprenticeship as a Communist underground agent, using false names...