Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There have been a huge number of missed signs, pick-offs, throws-to-the-wrong-base, and so forth. And the team has been distressingly poor at base-running and bunting. These things may seem like details; but baseball is, to a large degree, a game of details...
...attention to detail, the Western proposals showed a willingness to negotiate, not merely an eagerness to propagandize. Those whose trade it is to analyze documents could see in this one an impressive vision of a sensible European future, and that momentary glimpse of what Europe might become made Geneva seem less tawdry, even if no more hopeful...
...York expected this when I left five years ago," he said last week in his still Manhattan-tinted accent as he puffed a Dunhill cigarette. But he saw nothing odd about an American occupying a bastion of Britain. Said Anglican Simpson: "The United States Government doesn't seem to mind if I pray for Queen Elizabeth...
...those balconies be dangerous for children? How about privacy, heating and storage? Kiesler does have answers to these questions, though as an all-out idea man he can be impatient with too much insistence on the practical. Comfort is largely a matter of habit, he argues; his house might seem uncomfortable at first, yet not remain so. The curving lips of the interior overhangs make them fairly safe for children. There is visual privacy, though not the privacy that doors afford. The kitchen is to be built into one of the supporting pillars beneath. Radiant heating will keep the house...
...started the Harvard-Columbia Conference on Education which brought delegates from comparable colleges together to discuss common problems. The NSA's failure to provide this kind of program was a major reason for last fall's withdrawal. In both cases the Council filled long-neglected needs with programs which seem to have good futures...