Word: reflect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embattled Agriculture Secretary was, as Loveless sensed, a big factor in the campaign. The Fourth District's farmers have been hit by falling prices,* and they reflect accurately the national discontent with the Benson farm program. Kyi, an attractive, articulate TV newscaster and clothing merchant, was careful to dissociate himself from Ezra Benson: "Please note that I do not run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Benson most certainly is not a candidate in this district." But Democrat Gilmour, associate professor of political science at Grinnell College and a hardworking, handshaking campaigner, poured it on: "A vote...
...fire," the father improvises shakily. "He had nothing on but his bearskin, and the flies were driving him mad ..." The son objects contemptuously: "I don't like the way he tells it, he's all mixed up." Determinedly, the father plows on. The reader may reflect that for a Henry Miller heroine, Goldilocks gets off easily. She is eaten by the three bears...
...that have gone on during the past 13 months. The commission had found its authority in a section of the Communications Act of 1934, which requires that stations name on the air all people who in any manner pay to have material broadcast. The FCC poll will probably not reflect anything like the amount of bread that has actually changed hands, since many breadwinners can be expected to deny that they have ever been on the take...
...outsider, the Office of Sports Information is pretty much a press service," Pittenger says, but to him his job has a far greater significance. He feels that his work does much to shape the public image of Harvard; "everything we do is part of Harvard, and has to reflect its dignity and excellence...
...word of many religions, to give them Shakespeare, O'Neill and Wyatt Earp-and Twenty One. But as he faced the House subcommittee last week, the man who was personally responsible for bringing most of its quiz shows to NBC ("And I'm not ashamed of it") reflected little of television's potential magic. The same witness chair had been occupied for four days by a tawdry succession of fixers and schlockmeisters, corrupters and corrupted (see above). Bob Kintner had gone to Washington with the difficult task of showing that 1) NBC had done everything that could...