Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never quite bring themselves to believe that it is sometimes wiser to spend money on bombers than on welfare programs. And even when, like Bevan, they have been awakened to power realities by political responsibility, they cannot escape the fact that their political strength rests on voters who seem to believe that the only thing that can stave off nuclear holocaust is Western concessions to Moscow...
Mission to Moscow. Thus driven, Socialist leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
...Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If First Impressions resembles any fair lady, it is Jenny, the girl who could not make up her mind. The show wavers between Austen, Burrows and music-hall burlesque, and only the elegant Regency settings and costumes of Peter Larkin and Alvin Colt seem serenely self-assured...
Since the present Dean Esty is only the latest member of a long and unbroken line of Amherst teachers and administrators of that name, and since your newspaper will probably be writing in the future about Dean Esty or his descendants, it would seem well that you be apprised of the proper spelling...
Harvard and Cambridge "have been married long enough so that any talk of separation would hardly seem well grounded," President Pusey said yesterday, nothing that the University is one of the city's largest employers, consumers, taxpayers, and attractions...