Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate investigation of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa. most dangerous threat to U.S. society since Al Capone, began to look as though it might never end. Among last week's disclosures: ¶ During a 1953 House subcommittee hearing investigating Hoffa, Chairman Wint Smith, a Kansas Republican, was called from the room to answer the telephone, returned flustered, mysteriously called off the hearings. Last week onetime (1939-1942) Kansas Republican Governor Payne Ratner, a nervous, nose-grooming witness, partly explained what had happened. As Hoffa's attorney, he had visited Smith, used the leverage built up when Smith...
Climactic scene of the pageant was Moroni's appearance, in the form of an angel, to Joseph Smith, 17-year-old son of an upstate farmer, which Smith reported in 1823. Moroni, he said, told him about the tablets and informed him that he had been appointed by God to lead the world back to the true church. Joseph translated the tablets (said to be about eight inches square and covered with fine writing in "reformed Egyptian") with the aid of a pair of spiritual spectacles buried with them; the spectacles consisted of two stones called Urim and Thummin...
Professional Polish. The 128 years since Founder Smith formally organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have witnessed a triumphant march of Mormonism through bloody persecutions (Smith himself was killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.) to a present pinnacle of prosperity and respectable good will. Today the Mormons, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, own canneries, insurance companies, banks, number among their ruling Twelve Apostles a U.S. Cabinet officer (Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson). Members in good standing donate a tenth of their incomes to the church. Five thousand missionaries from...
...Daniel L. Gutman, partner in Zuckerman, Smith & Co.: "The market is enormously dangerous at current levels. There is a great deal of ignorant and superficial buying which is using inflation as an excuse. Unless inflation shows up in earnings and dividends, this reasoning is stupid. The market over the next six months will sell materially lower, touching last fall...
...Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She gives a weekend house-party, and manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. She tries to fix her husband's business deals and do a little matchmaking on the side. She spouts cliches and misquotations with amazing volubility. It is she who arranges a bridge game before supper because "it would be sort of soothing," and then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from...