Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every family, peace and plenty for all people−these call for a strong, growing, private-enterprise economy." ¶ "To stay free we must stay strong. Though we must recognize that peace cannot be gained by arms alone, yet we must gird ourselves with sufficient military strength to discourage resort to war and to protect our nation's vital interests; moreover, we must help to strengthen the collective defense of free nations...
...back. In more than three years out of office Harry Truman had lost none of his ability to fire up the Democratic faithful-in fact the fire burned so merrily that some of his old friends in the party suspected he might be thinking of himself as a last-resort candidate...
...could only manage to muster up an average of three games per match to throw at the varsity Wednesday as the Engineers bowed by a 15-0 score. Only Steve Gottlieb and Maynard Canfield had to resort to more than ten games to win a set, and the fifth doubles combine of Captain Brooks Harris and Gottlieb took their match without the loss of a game...
This writer, then a teenager, well remembers his residence and travels in Germany at that time, and how he had to resort to extreme measures to wear as a subtle flattery to the Germans the Schnurrbart, made so popular by the Kaiser. Each and every night at bedtime, one soaked the mustache with a dressing (which hardened when dry), then applied the Schnurrbart binder made of netlike material, shaped to go under the nose and extend well toward the ears, held flat and tight by elastic bands behind the ears. After applying, each side was lifted in turn...
...kill or cure him? This theme has more or less dominated a spate of recent novels, notably The Exchange of Joy (set in Italy), The Capri Letters (Italy), A Slimmer Night (Italy) and The Sea and the Stone (Greece). In The Dark Glasses the atmospheric catalyst is the Greek resort island of Corfu, and the inhibited patient is a 39-year-old crew-cut Englishman named Patrick Orde whose eleven-year marriage to a Greek woman is not so much on the rocks as thoroughly becalmed...