Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "Saratoga looks good. We know, just as you do, that she is good."), one somber note crept into the good sailing he had enjoyed. Three Navy fighter planes from Cecil Field, Fla. crashed on routine operations in the vicinity of Sara, and operations were suspended or altered to search out the pilots, reducing the presidential task force from 19 to three ships. Two pilots were saved, one lost, and Ike, deeply disturbed, sent .his sympathy to the next...
...Berkeley ("a professor's house, you know") to study, play an occasional game of tennis and stroll about the hills. But he had had his effect on U.S. education-in the great-books seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search for the unity of knowledge, in the trend toward giving college students more independence and in the new interest in liberal education for adults. Last week Amherst found the old pioneer still the philosophical idealist, trying to find "the meaning and purpose of the total human scene." "Courage, beauty, truth, freedom...
...Biff! Bang! Wallop!" In search of a hero for his sensational novel of the 19205, Montparnos, which established the claim of Montparnasse as a rip-roaring Bohemia to rival the prewar Montmartre, M.G.M. uncovered such unknowns as Amedeo Modigliani and Utrillo, recounts how on their first meeting the two great painters exchanged coats as a token of mutual admiration. Then one said: "You are the world's greatest painter...
...Beaches. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., local boosters succeeded in a nationwide search for a living namesake by finding Mrs. Myrtle Beach of Fort Madison, Iowa, mother of three - Sandy, Marshy and Rocky...
...that he realized that good company could mean more than intelligence, sophistication and conviviality. It was when he began to look for this new radical kind of goodness, to look for virtue instead of virtuosity, that he first found how little his systematic education had actually meant in his search for a way of life...