Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power was being demonstrated last week through U.S. farm areas. In November, the farm vote probably will be crucial; theoretically both candidates have an equal chance to get it. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture-merely applying the law and using the taxpayers' money-was able to remind farmers that the Democratic Party wouldn't let even nature "take it away." The surprising paradox is that the "ins" are able simultaneously to garner political credits from a disastrous drought in some parts of the U.S., and bumper harvests in others...
...this week's visitors (see SPORT) were as interested in seeing how Finland, in the role of little David, stands off the big Goliath on its right, as in watching slim young men in gym suits do the running broad jump. They saw little in Helsinki to remind them of a menace ever present. As in West Berlin, the people who live closest to danger are calmest about it. Less than a dozen miles from spotless, gleaming Helsinki itself, Russian guns firmly emplaced on Finnish soil are ready, if necessary, to reduce the pale architectural spectrum of Finland...
...David Maxwell Fyfe, you don't like our radio and TV system? May I remind you that it is a free enterprise? It is NOT a government subsidy ! . . . Drink all the tea you wish, but don't expect me to do the same...
...someone has to do something. On this Grand & Glorious Fourth, when orators traditionally remind the nation of the dream of freedom, the fighting spirit, the hatred of tyranny and the sense of purpose that gave it birth, the U.S. is engaged in a frustrating, distant war that seems to have lost its meaning. It has been called a "police action," but the police are sitting in a tent arguing with the criminals...
...Alexander M. Drummond, 67, who in 32 years as professor of speech and drama, has turned Cornell's drama department into one of the best in the country. Like the football coach he started out to be, "the Boss" railed and ranted through hundreds of rehearsals ("May I remind the cast that the audience usually likes to hear the lines that the author has taken the trouble to write?"), badgered and bludgeoned dozens of gawky students into becoming well-known actors and writers. Among them: Sidney Kingsley, Franchot Tone, William Prince, Dorothy Sarnoff, and Dan Duryea ("Strangely enough...