Word: shiniest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time coming. Jonah was born roughly 50 years ago in Louisville. The son of a fireman, he had little interest in music until one day "I was standing on the corner, and a kid band was coming along, and I saw them trombones out in front. They were the shiniest, prettiest things I ever did see." Jonah's arms were too short to play the trombone, but he took up the trumpet, eventually graduated to the small Louisville combos-Tinsley's Royal Aces, Perdue's Pirates, etc. After that he "gigged around" with most of the famous...
...Washington's seven congressional districts (six of them Republican), Democrats outpolled Republicans by more than 20%-in a state where Democrats historically do better in the general election than in the primary. Shiniest Republican statewide hopeful: Newcomer William B. Bantz, 40, burly, personable former U.S. district attorney from Spokane, his party's nominee to unhorse Democrat Senator Henry M. Jackson. Big Bill campaigned hard for regulation of labor unions ("My stand on labor bosses is damn popular"), polled 136,000 votes, about 100,000 more than anyone expected him to get, set starved Washington Republicans hollering, that Bill...
...modest crop from U.C.L.A.'s burgeoning med school was a welcome addition to the estimated 7,000 new doctors just graduated from the nation's 75 accredited four-year medical colleges. As products of the nation's shiniest new med school, designed from the first to profit from the mistakes and experiences of others, the 36 young doctors from U.C.L.A. could boast of the most modern medical education possible...
...ground, but always rises to an occasion. Alfalfa is wistful, but his cowlick won't stay put. Doe-eyed Farina has his black hair up in curlers, but is headed for trouble. Golden-haired Baby Jean is fickle: she generally falls for the kid with the shiniest fire engine. All of them get in and out of the same old scrapes, baffle grownups and outsiders, and always have ready answers to teacher's questions ("What is an escalator?" "Something that hangs around swamps...
...York, as any visitor can see, is the showplace of change, the city that always sports the latest and shiniest in automobiles, literary movements and ballpoint pens, where perfectly good buildings are torn down every year to make way for newer and better ones. Only its politics have stopped moving. Politically, New York is a kind of petrified forest, where reform candidates roam in solidly institutionalized groups, and the stumps of once-great political growths clutter the landscape...