Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital found Dwight Eisenhower maintaining "an excellent state of health," fully recovered from his- heart attack of September 1955 and his intestinal operation of June 1956. Whereupon Ike took off from his annual physical checkup for the kind of jet-propelled week that proved every medical word...
...Civil Rights Act. Since the commission is a new instrument of Government, no one dared predict just how much it could accomplish, but almost everyone agreed that Ike had staffed it with earnest and judicially minded men. ¶ Commission chairman: former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, 72, who retired last February. Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern white primary. Southerners could take comfort, however, from Reed's reputation as the court's most conservative member during his latter years on the bench...
...last week, just a year after surgery for intestinal cancer, returned to the Walter Reed Army Hospital for a checkup, was released with an "excellent" bill of health...
...inner conflict of a Japan in transition. The core of meaning, which the Westerner will perhaps find hard to penetrate, is the concept of a heroism that never indulges in triumphs of the will and Promethean wrestlings with destiny, but bends to the winds of fate like a reed and, never breaking, wins the subtler triumph of endurance...
...Tiny Reed College in Portland, Ore. has long had to rely on its high academic prestige (liberal arts and sciences) to sugar-coat its cut-rate faculty salaries; e.g., Reed's full professors average only $7,500 v. the $10,293 average pay of their counterparts at the state-owned University of Oregon. But Reed's hard-put faculty members had some cheering news last week: an anonymous benefactor gave Reed an endowment fund worth some $400,000 that will be used solely to raise salaries. The new gift boosted Reed's take in the last...