Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvest and saves the government money. Last week in Pretoria Supreme Court, Justice Quartus De Wet, after hearing arguments that the system has no basis in law, remarked sternly, "The court cannot countenance this procedure." Crusading Lawyer Carlson allowed himself a smile and a side remark: "At last we seem to be getting somewhere...
...find unemployment, housing shortages. jammed schools. Each disillusionment chafes doubly as a Communist propaganda drumfire pounds on it. And the new prosperity of Europe, the new and well publicized political freedom in Africa, added to existing prosperity and freedom in the U.S.. serve to make Latin America seem relatively stalled...
...jugular slash. There are more handsome compliments ("Hedda Hopper's attractive hairdo and apparel" ), more sentimental excursions into history ("[George Washington] was the father of our country. Even more-he was a brother to every American"), and more nostalgic poetry ("How long ago and far away you seem . . . As fragile as a whisper in the dark...
COLOR TV SETS will soon be put on sale by Admiral Corp., because President Ross D. Siragusa believes there is finally a good market for color. Other TV makers, except color pioneer RCA, are still skeptical, do not seem likely to join in production. Admiral hopes to overcome consumer color-TV resistance by offering one-year guarantee on all parts, v. usual 90-day warranty...
...readers trying to visualize the social climate in which Simone de Beauvoir rebelled against parental authority. As she depicts the French society of her girlhood, it was almost Oriental in its concern with losing face and in its rigid taboos. As a female emancipation proclamation, the Memoirs will also seem curiously dated to Americans, for Feminist de Beauvoir belongs uncompromisingly to the either-or camp on the marriage v. career question, and apparently consigns most of her sex to the vegetable bin of history. Nonetheless these graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs...