Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign to assert his own brand of party leadership (see Republicans), Republican spirits were on the rise. At week's end, bone weary, with voice choked by a cold, Nixon hailed "the shot in the arm" that Ike had given Republicans. Said Nixon: "Today I can confidently say that as we enter the last critical week it is a brand-new campaign...
...that he would be willing to call off the telecast if Morhouse insisted but would have to explain publicly just why. The point: loyal G.O.P. voters in upstate New York might well resent the cancellation, not to mention the slight to national party unity. Morhouse hurriedly called back to say go ahead with the telecast. Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech-which even stony-hearted critics ruled as the best of his political career...
...Soviet refugees say that high-altitude U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes flying in from the West made a nighttime penetration of Russian airspace in late 1956 or early 1957. MIG-17s from the Moscow air defense district scrambled to meet them, could not get up to their altitude (above 50,000 ft.). The commander of the Moscow air defense zone is reported to have been fired after this episode...
...scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...
...short story of the same title. In fact he rejects the distinction between original play and adaptation. "No play is an original play... All of Tennessee's plays came from either his one-acts or his stories. They're developments. You think about it. Certainly you can't say my play is an adaptation of my short story. It's quite different .... I'd never adapt anybody else's play. I've too much ego for that...