Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instantly there came the idea that has been cropping up in North Dakota for a long time: a new name for the state, something that was more romantic-anything, in fact, that would make North Dakota sound gay, cheerful as a bottle of champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...
...gate-mouthed Socialist Party renegade who, like Kadar, had been through ex-Party Boss Rakosi's torture mill in seven years in a Communist prison. Though Marosan appeared to have more spirit than Kadar, his appeals to sullen Hungarian audiences to help save the economy had an unrealistic sound. More in the spirit of those audiences, though no longer perhaps within their capacity, were the posters, plastered on Budapest walls last week, exhorting Hungarians not to forget their dead Freedom Fighters, and warning them to stand by for a new uprising...
Ernie Kovacs, 38, is the one television comedian who finds most of his tee-hee in TV itself. He is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), messy, cigar-frazzling buffoon who uses cameras, sets, sound effects to make rowdy electronic fun. He may duel and play poker with himself or shoot a hole through his head and blow smoke through it. Once he appeared to viewers inside a huge bottle, holding an umbrella to keep off the rain. He was slowly submerged, then he tapped the bottle with a hammer; and glass, water and Kovacs spilled onstage. Curling...
...outlining this concept, the President has enunciated a number of unusually sound criteria for American international action--for example, he emphasized that America must not be self-righteous, must not attempt to form "any artificial imitation" of American institutions on other peoples. Even more striking was his greeting to the peoples of Russia, in which he wished them a happy softening of purpose in the most moral of possible terms...
...Whyte sees it, the U.S. is a nation which likes to think of itself as 160 million individualists, but is filling up with a new generation that is more than half in love with easeful life. This generation, thinks Whyte, has deliberately lowered its sights to a safe, sound, specialized job within some "company family" and membership in a suburban group where nothing is split but the split-level home...