Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political circuses that the U.S. calls presidential primaries, there have been many spectacular performances through the recent years. But seldom before have two candidates made as great a leap as Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver tried last week from Florida, where the program called upon them to be "conservative," to California, where the aim was to be "liberal...
...Plumber Calls. But the most spectacular tribute came from the growing armies of readers. When the country's newspaper circulations were unfrozen in 1946 for the first time after World War II, News of the World shot up 900,000 in a single week from its 4,000,000 wartime quota. For years, hungry readers queued for it, waited for subscribers to die so they could take the place on the subscription rolls...
...fired with zeal in his new job as information director for the Air Force. Scott had prepared a slambang, let-out-all-stops press campaign, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Strategic Air Command and aimed at proving to the U.S. public once and for all that, with its "spectacular mobility" and its "complete arsenal of destructive weapons," the U.S. Air Force "outmodes the most modern surface forces...
...Slender, handsome, kind-hearted and a spectacular orator, he is the most popular man in Indonesia. No Indonesian can outtalk him; he has survived innumerable revolts, more than a dozen Cabinet changes, a restive army. He has skimmed John Dewey, Marx, Lenin, Jefferson, Lincoln, John Reed, Otto Bauer, and is still tingling over the discoveries. Dotes on American history, but at times comes up with such historical whoppers as: "There was lack of law and order in America for 60 years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife...
...Righthander Roberts an old-fashioned pitcher. He never bothers with fancy stuff but makes do with what he has: a dinky curve, a sneaky but unspectacular fast ball, and a frustrating change of pace. He offers no single dramatic talent-he has no counterpart of Carl Hubbell's spectacular screwball, Walter Johnson's terrifying fast ball, Bobby Feller's strikeout touch. Pitch for pitch, many of his contemporaries have what the trade calls "more stuff," pitches that are harder, faster, or trickier. But better than any of them now on the mound, Robin Roberts...