Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solicitor General Simon Sobeloff, a Marylander, offered "the counsel of moderation, but with a degree of firmness." This, he explained, meant no deadline for completing integration, but a deadline of 90 days (plus extensions if needed) for submitting plans to the District Courts. The lower courts should be told not to allow time "for the purpose of paralyzing action or of emasculating the court's decision." said Sobeloff, adding that the "prestige of this court is such that people will be disposed to abide by the law and not invent spurious reasons for delay...
...young Pitt became George III's Prime Minister at 24. *Eden's elder son Simon, an R.A.F. navigator, was lost over Burma in World...
...heaven-his sheer gaiety and charm, his incredible vitality, his spontaneous wit . . . Can you imagine anything but a smile when he nicknames the gentle John and his brother 'The sons of Thunder'? Is there not a light of amusement as well as seriousness when the impetuous Simon finds himself for all the ages called 'The Rock' . . . ? Christians have puzzled for centuries over the unjust judge and the fraudulent steward, afraid to acknowledge that the divine Lord can point a serious moral with a lighthearted tale...
...BEST BUTTER (247 pp.)-Jean Uutourd-Simon & Schuster...
...when the gold medal or the brass watch was hocked for the price of a hot meal, the tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details of his childhood street scraps, the first wild rounds of his private bout with the world...