Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached the full stature of a demagogue in his campaign to prevent Clare Boothe Luce from serving as Ambassador of the United States to Brazil. In subverting the will of the President and 79 colleagues in the Senate who voted to confirm the nomination, Senator Morse won what may seem to him a victory over his chosen enemy, President Eisenhower. But many of his constituents are ashamed...
Have Castro's travels taught him the peril of Red support? Nothing in last week's events proved that he doubts the merits of a popular front, though he did seem to want Communist infiltration to appear less blatant. Under wraps, the Red drive for power went on. Items...
...South's noisy extremists do not necessarily represent the South. On one hand are the in-power gallus snappers who would rather have their children go ignorant than have them educated in company with Negroes. On the other side are the cause pumpers who somehow always seem to end up at New York fund-raising rallies. Somewhere in between lies a substantial but generally silent group of moderates. Among these, few make their presence more manifest than the Atlanta Constitution's Cartoonist Clifford H. Baldowski, who draws under the name of "Baldy...
Ulanova displayed a mastery so complete that technique itself seemed to disappear, letting emotion flood the stage. In the first act Ulanova was a shy girl, trembling with anguish and expectation on the edge of maturity. In a remarkable series of movements, expressions and gestures, she mimed her unfolding first love, with its joys and terrors wavering through her like a fever. At first as tremulous in her movements as a butterfly fluttering from a chrysalis, she broadened her movements as the act progressed into ardently flowing figures that beautifully and simply evoked her stirring feelings. After her betrayal...
...Psychiatrist Satten and his Topeka research team, it seemed that the murderous petty officer-listed in their records as "Thomas"-had temporarily and partially lost consciousness and suffered a kind of personality detachment. This jibed with Thomas' own statement: "I knew I was doing it, but it didn't seem like me. It was like watching myself doing it." In three other cases of sudden and apparently motiveless murder, the Topeka researchers got the same story of men blacking out and then seeming to be spectators at their own crimes...