Word: reflect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of Columbia University, head of NATO forces, and finally President of the U.S. Few Presidents' sons have handled themselves so well. Says one Army friend: "Most of us have to fight to get ahead, but John can't throw his weight around, since it might reflect on his father...
Behind the Red colonel's capture lay a bizarre story-only partly exposed last week by tight-lipped Justice officials-that in spots seemed to reflect equal doses of Alec Guinness and E. Phillips Oppenheim. Aided by his invaluable surface nonentity, Rudolf Abel had been a successful spy since 1927, spoke fluent English, French, German, was a good hand at electronics, mechanical engineering, photography. With a fake U.S. birth certificate in his pocket, Abel slipped into the U.S. in 1948 at "an unknown point" along the Canadian border. At home in Russia he left his wife, son, married daughter...
...officials is the decline in paralytic as compared with nonparalytic cases. At this time last year, half of all cases were listed as paralytic, one-third as nonparalytic. This year fewer than one-third are paralytic, about half nonparalytic (the rest are unspecified). The overall decline in polio might reflect in part a natural ebb of the disease, but the relative drop in paralytic cases is almost certainly attributable to vaccination...
...American Foundation for the Blind, e.g., don't use cliches like "blind-drunk" and "blind as a bat." But he tries to resist most demands by touchy viewers, even risks letting "damn" or "hell" stay in a script if it seems unforced. "If we don't reflect the real world around us," he says, "radio and TV are going to be awfully dull, and competitively, we'll get clobbered...
...Bird. In Rochester, the Traffic Control Committee politely deferred action on Mrs. Verone H. White's complaint that cars parked near her house reflect the sun into her parakeet's eyes...