Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough moments of boos pickets and catcalls, but not until he got to the atomic showplace of Shippingport, Pa. (pop. 400), where since 1957 a nuclear power plant has produced electricity, did Kozlov look as though he had grabbed hold of a hot wire. The hot wire: none other than Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, the deadpan boss of the Atomic Energy Commission's Naval Reactors Branch...
Died. Henry Prather Fletcher, 86, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders who parlayed his wartime glory into a career (1902-29) as a poker-and polo-playing diplomat, while Ambassador to Chile and later Mexico deftly deflated anti-Americanism with a caustic wit, served (1934-36) as a bumbling Old Guard chairman of the Republican National Committee when the party got its most disastrous defeats by the New Deal; in Newport...
...opinion of the art section of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, which is, somewhat belatedly, being scrutinized by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (34 of the 67 artists represented, the committee charged, "have records of affiliations with Communist fronts and causes"). Ike's answer was rough going...
...insisted that it was poker), resolutely fought off sleep. Arriving in Denver in the charge of a Secret Serviceman, David shouldered his heavy duffel bag, visited his ailing great-grandmother Elivera Doud, then rejoined his pals for a ride to Skyline Ranch, a boys' camp where he will rough it for five weeks...
...great human stories of Washington.'' mused the New York Times's Chief Washington Correspondent James Reston last week, "are beyond the scope of daily journalism." He was rejecting on the "rough time" that daily journalism had in trying to explain why the Senate refused to confirm Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. It was the onrush of the great human story in the Strauss affair that TIME reported in its June 15 cover story on Strauss, a story that prepared readers for the thorny issues and the thornier human personalities involved. With weekly journalism's advantages...