Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus attorneys seemed hardly to care what happened to the motions. Within minutes after young, nervous Faubus Lawyer Kay Matthews began a rambling argument for the disqualification motion, Little Rock School Superintendent Virgil Blossom became the first-but by no ' means the last-spectator to fall sound asleep. Again, while addressing himself to another motion, Faubus Lawyer Walter Pope said his whole argument was in his brief, and someone had once told him that judges could read. Smiled Ronald Davies: "Yes, I am one of the judges who can read." Moments later the Faubusinspired motions were quietly and firmly...
This week the Democrats got from Democrat Powell (who bolted to Ike in 1956) the first returns on how the Arkansas mess might sound in political language. Said Powell to his packed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Manhattan: "I must sharply condemn my fellow Democrats for daring to insert politics into this sensitive question. How dare Adlai Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat...
...Mexico newspaper publisher (Santa Fe New Mexican), cattleman and corporation director, as the U.S. representative in the 45-nation International Atomic Energy Agency, created to carry out the atoms-for-peace program that the President proposed in December 1953. Patronage problems aside, brainy Bob McKinney, 47, seemed a sound choice for the post. A onetime (1951-52) Assistant Secretary of the Interior, he served ably in 1955-56 as chairman of a top-level citizens' panel set up by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy to study and report on peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. All in all, more than 250,000 men, 300 ships and 1,500 aircraft are participating in the biggest maneuvers since World War II. Formidable as these forces sound, they do not satisfy NATO's Supreme Commander, blond, boyish-looking U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Last week, giving the top military brass of the 15 NATO nations a secret preview of the formal five-year plan that he will submit to NATO's permanent Council next...
...about ten years ago. Look at this little table. I've turned down over a hundred dollars for it." After pointing out some glasses, Goldman advised '"Listen to the ring. That's the sign of good crystal. He tapped the rim of a glass and nodded approval of the sound...