Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some State Department officers seem to care not a damn for our servicemen involuntarily abroad, whose constitutional rights their department signed away in status-of-forces agreements with foreign governments. Donald B. Eddy, U.S. consul...
...into the mike and convince a million televiewers that she is alone with each one of them. The songs may be old-They Didn't Believe Me, It's Always You-but the voice comes fresh and insinuating, husky with promise. Under the spotlight, the face may seem sad, even a bit tired, but most men look twice...
...money is a nightmare, even more vexing is the oddly uneven quality of public education. Compared to Europe's state-run systems, U.S. schools seem an anarchist's brainchild. With their genius for decentralization, the Constitution's writers left education in the laps of the states, which handed it over to local communities. Today nearly all responsibility is vested in 198,108 members of 49,477 school boards. The schools they command reflect vastly different standards. The . teachers they hire receive grossly varying salaries. The results range from splendid to shameful...
...true, as the saying goes, that a picture is worth ten thousand words. But it depends on who is looking through the range finder. Photographer Carl Mydans has been making picture history for LIFE for nearly a quarter-century, and in many a picture has made words seem superfluous. Yet sooner or later a man must speak or write. Mydans, living and working in a time of violence, has seen more of history than most men, and recorded so much of it that immunity to ordinary feeling might seem a natural result. But his time, too, has come to write...
...with one arm, raised the other high, as one would a torch, holding a bottle of plasma, pouring life back into a broken body. I think I have never seen a soldier kneeling thus who was not in some way shrouded with a godlike grace and who did not seem sculptured and destined for immortality...