Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises in the past ten years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable, where the boy cried 'Wolf! Wolf!' too often. But this...
Beneath the impulsive language, the full outline of the Russian design could be plainly seen, and for Russian purposes it had been adroitly conceived. Moscow has divided its German policy into two categories. One is directed at the statesmen of the U.S., Britain and France, the other to the people of West Germany. For each audience, Khrushchev had an unmistakable message...
...Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan, but I think Pettit is the best all-round player I've ever seen...
...There had been bred within this painter," says Sellers, "a call to the lofty and obscure and an artist's sensitive pride. He had seen from within himself what held the sun and stars and planets in their courses, but could not find his way and purposes among the nearer things. He had to have, somewhere in the world, a place of perfection of his own, though it should be only the little one of laughter, of surprise, only the illusion of fruit upon a table rich with the juices of summer...
Matthew J. Toohy, Captain of the University Police, also said that the Freshmen should be "much more careful about locking their doors" and called for better all-round cooperation on the part of students living in the Yard in reporting to their proctors any strangers seen in the dorms soliciting funds, selling magazines, or acting suspiciously...