Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading of Lincoln's reply to Douglas, at Peoria on Oct. 16, 1854, reveals that the truth-loving, morality-conscious Great Emancipator expressed a materially different sentiment: "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Again Honest Abe said on May 19, 1856: "But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot...
...look out over the baseball field (over the catcher's head), right field is to my right. So, it seems to me, Stan Musial squares off on the right side of the plate, not the left...
...Francis . . .?" a reporter started to ask. "No comment," grumbled Lewis. "Is it true that Senator Bridges is about . . .?-" began another. "No comment." The reporters paused. "All right. All right," said their host. "Sorry I can't work for you boys all the time but I have other clients...
Before he retired, Stannard and Kennecott directors made sure that they had the right man to replace him. Since they were planning to spend $10 million to help develop gold mines in Africa, they picked Arthur Storke, 54, a mining man with an African background. Storke had trotted the globe and risen to the presidency of Climax Molybdenum Corp. He was an operating director of South Africa's Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., and of Rhodesian Selection Trust, Ltd.; during World War II, as minerals adviser to Britain's Ministry of Supply, he expedited mining operations in South...
Throw Some Weight. Weller, who connects the threads of action with asides of lis own, has a prescription for defeating he Communists and rebuilding Greece: "To make the left stop increasing, you must throw some weight against the right...