Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find myself inclined to follow the lead of the single man, Eisenhower, as against the combined "intelligence" of all those raucous members of Congress who arc now having such a wonderful time playing their game of politics. In the end, the sound and fury which now rages through the halls of Congress will abate, and Ike will yet emerge the winner...
...bald Teamster-boss father. The long-elusive Junior lost no time on the amenities, plopped his 210-lb. frame into the witness chair, and settled right down to his pleas of possible self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. He gave his name and address, then began to sound like a tape recording of dear old dad. Beck's bad boy managed to run up 124 uses of the Fifth (papa topped 200), and in one burst of speed tossed off 73 refusals in 20 minutes...
Critics of the three-year program are numerous and vociferous. What will happen to the maturing process, they ask, if students are shuffled through college at such a rate? The nation has enough specialists and experts. Many feel it Harvard's function to produce leaders and inspire sound judment...
...Pollard suggests the difficulty. It has been so long since we have had a Christian culture that 1957 can hardly understand the Christian revelation. When these men talk about life after death, resurrection, judgment, and God, their words sound hollow. There is no reference to a common experience except despair. There are no shared meanings, because such things can only grow in a community in which such concepts are imminent facts...
...sound bitter," the managing editor said...