Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago it looked as if Harry S. Truman and Robert A. Taft would be the nominees for the presidency. Instead of these familiar quantities, the country now has to reckon with two men relatively new to national politics, both clearly able, both clearly capable of springing lots of surprises. The two meetings at the stockyards proved that fresh winds are badly needed...
...people with the worst economic news in years (see above), such questions rained down upon the Tories. The economic news-of cuts and shortages and redoubled austerity-was of personal concern to every Briton, but, to this nation of 50 million people who once ruled the waves and still reckon themselves mighty, so were the decisions on foreign policy...
Team Manager Gretchen Fraser, who won the U.S.'s first Olympic skiing gold medal in 1948, was exuberant: "This is the first time in history that American skiers have made such a showing [one-two] in international competition. We'll have a team to reckon with at Oslo...
...Edwardian Debate. The Belloc with whom posterity will reckon does not belong to this era at all. He belongs to those Edwardian days when the wiseacres said of him-as they said of Churchill-that his very brilliance would be his undoing. For Belloc could write like an angel, sail a yacht like an old salt, take to the hustings like a born politician (he was a-Liberal M.P. for South Salford from 1906 to 1910). He turned out books at the rate of two or three a year-poems, novels, histories and essays of such diversity that, as early...
...Beachcomber John Russell and his mangy crew reckon without the courage of Mailman Jerome Courtland, the awshucks hero who plunges under water to wrestle alligators hand-to-jaw when the safety of Heroine Terry Moore is at stake. And they fail to figure on the cunning of Dude Robert Cummings, a polysyllabic confidence man who comes from the North to swindle the Floridians, and stays on to save them. Whenever Cummings is in a tight spot, he reaches to his watch chain for a pistol the size of a tie-clip and plugs his assailant with a Lilliputian slug...