Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson, at a labor-organized bean-and-wiener feed ($1 a plate) in Milwaukee Auditorium, said: "The tragedy of the Eisenhower Administration is that its only weapons seem to be platitudes or paratroops. And this seems to be true whether the situation is Little Rock or Lebanon, South America or Quemoy...
...best victories are the ones so well prepared that they come easy and seem effortless. Such a victory did Charles de Gaulle win last week. Within one month of earning his overwhelming election mandate, he used that triumph to put himself clearly on top, and clearly in charge, both in France and in Algeria...
...with lots of steam. But Louella Parsons I don't like. Louella used to be a reporter with me in Chicago; she was one of the worst reporters the town ever knew . . . She's positively one of the most sad things in Hollywood. She makes it seem like a town full of boss lovers-which it is. She bows when the boss is not there, just his shadow...
...moon-probe Pioneer, which burned out over the South Pacific after staying in space for 43 hours, rose 79,000 miles-or only one-third of the distance to the moon. But it made a much nearer miss than the figures seem to show. The earth's gravitational field drops off with the square of the distance. With only 2% more thrust or only about 580 more m.p.h. peak velocity. Pioneer could have passed the moon* and escaped from the earth forever...
...College is no more." Student groups, clubs and even fraternities are on the decline; campus traditions seem "collegiate" to the new student, "and this is no longer a word of praise." Students are enormously concerned with "knowing themselves." Joe Knowledge wants to be an individual, but "not at the expense of rejection" by the group. He is tolerant, "perhaps too much so, feeling that everyone is entitled to his opinion and even that one opinion is probably as valid as another." He is convinced that what he lives in is not the best of all possible worlds...