Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more serious debt management problems with heavier defense outlays in prospect (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The main value of the $275 billion figure has been to act as a psychological drag on Government spending. Originally set in 1946, when the debt was $269 billion, the ceiling was low enough to remind the U.S. of the need for economy, but high enough to give the Treasury leeway in its operations. But the Korean war pushed the debt right to the ceiling. Ever since, the Treasury and the Administration have been in such a constant struggle to manage the nation's finances...
...first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened, bedizened village elders carving tribal designs into the backs of young boys in manhood initiation rites, and, water-borne again, Lowell waving "Hi, there" at "wary and suspicious" natives. "We push on, and the navigation grows more dangerous...
...remind your clever caricaturist that the old lady in the funny hat who is a member of the Anti-Vivisectionist Society, or any other protesting minority group, historically gives as valid and essential a contribution to Americanism as the research workers who have developed Salk vaccine...
...Prophet's admonition that a man must provide equal economic benefits for each of his wives. A young Malayan wife explained how she kept her husband from acquiring a second wife. Said she, giggling: "I just demand more of him, in every respect. Then I remind him that the Koran requires him to treat each wife equally...
...skill and versatile force, happens to have an extremely youthful face. This means, for example, that he can never smile fully; he frowns and glares and looks gloomy even more constantly than his part requires. His posture, his vigorous strides, and even some of his highly dramatic gestures also remind us too often that this master builder is a member of the very younger generation against which Ibsen's master builder carries on the fight that is the heart of the play. Yet Jordan has excellence; when he underplays, he is usually most persuasive, and in the voicing of passionate...