Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress ran in a remarkable time. Its life was shaped by Russian Sputniks and rocket diplomacy. Middle East turmoil, U.S. economic recession, election-year politics-by its own generally responsible leadership, and, above all, by the firmest treatment Capitol Hill ever got from Dwight Eisenhower. Last May, after a slow start, the President came out swinging for his program and especially for three legislative "imperatives": 1) defense reorganization, 2) mutual security, and 3) reciprocal trade. These are the grades Congress might give itself on demands of the President and passing the tests of Year One, Space...
...fiercely, guessed-on the air-that Winchell's "high, hysterical voice" results from his "too-tight underwear." Often, Paar punches with less provocation -massive retaliation, as one of his former writers puts it-for no act of aggression. When Perfectionist Paar berates stagehands ("the tippytoe squad") for being slow, his writers for providing dull jokes, the studio audience for not laughing, it is all done in fun-but there is a serious, waspish edge in the laughter...
...million dollars in Boston, the Korean war began and ended, General Dwight Eisenhower became President of the U.S.. Stalin died, King Farouk fled Egypt, Mount Everest was scaled, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier, Nasser seized the Suez Canal-nations fought and statesmen died and the seasons made their slow revolve in the Norman fields around Mont-d'Origny...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...
Sponsors took great pains to counter objections that killed previous federal aid bills, notably the school-construction bill that died a slow death in past sessions of Congress. They pointedly reaffirmed that control of education must remain at the state and local levels; each bill stipulates that funds be given first to state boards of education, then routed to schools and scholarship winners. Although the reasoning behind the Powell amendment (which helped to doom the school-construction bill in past years by forbidding federal aid to segregated schools) would seem to apply to some sections of this year...