Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insults. Fulbright, cried Douglas, had shoved his bill into a "stacked" subcommittee, where "the guillotine would fall, its head would be chopped off. [Fulbright] is a Deepfreeze artist." Fulbright insisted that his bill was merely a "very small amendment" to an already existing program. Shouted Douglas: "Two billions may seem small to the Senator from Arkansas, but it seems rather large to the Senator from Illinois." Retorted Fulbright, dragging in the massive embezzlements uncovered in Illinois' Republican state administration in 1956: "I know Illinois is a poor little state. You steal this much out of your public treasury there...
...place of their usual juicy tidbits about the doings of high society, Turkish gossip columns printed a curt and sober announcement last week: "Because of an agreement with the Turkish Newspaper Owners' Syndicate, we are discontinuing our society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier...
Vanguard I might seem too small (diameter: 6.4 in.; weight: 3.25 Ibs.) to carry much cargo, but an amazing amount of delicate apparatus was packed into it. Most novel items: its six solar batteries made of subtly treated silicon that look out through windows distributed over the sphere in such a way that at least one of them is always facing the sun. Each battery develops about 25 milliwatts of power when in sunlight, and feeds a miniature transmitter that broadcasts continuously on 108.03 megacycles. Another transmitter, powered by a mercury battery, broadcasts on 108 megacycles...
Money, Miracles. Author Graves admits to more and stronger literary quirks, prejudices, theological theories and odd bits and pieces of information than seem possible in one man. Samples: Milton's L'Allegro is not much of a poem-Robert Frost has written better; Saint Paul was dishonest with money; Jesus did not die on the Cross but may or may not have turned up in Rome in A.D. 49; bath water in Australia "goes widdershins [contrariwise] down the waste-pipe"; the "concept of the supernatural is a disease of religion," although, paradoxically, Graves-who claims to have risen...
...Phil. Hoover makes it plain that he is sensitive to charges of sensationalism that have been made against the FBI. Perhaps on this ground, he omitted all reference to the Hiss case, on which 263 agents of his bureau were engaged, although the chapter on "Espionage and Sabotage" would seem to call for it (Don Whitehead's The FBI Story, which Hoover underwrote, dealt with the case in some detail). Hoover's conclusion is a convincingly humble plea for Americans, particularly intellectuals, to restate the faith of their fathers. He does not mention the plain fact that...