Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requisite for a candidate for the presidency, how about letting the public see the complete and detailed physical examinations on Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Harriman and Mr. Kefauver? They all look a little run-down to me. Ike has passed his physical; let's see how these other candidates stack...
...showier romantic pieces that appeal to most young pianists, and he developed a style marked by poise, serenity and the avoidance of bravura for bravura's sake. "Of late we have heard a good many pianists who came to us with enormous reputations sworn to on a stack of phonograph records," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang. "I would not trade this young man for the whole slew of them...
...stack of overnight cables, dictated answers involving millions of dollars. One day last week, in a radio message to his London office. Niarchos approved final specifications for a new 32,650-ton tanker (cost: more than $10 million...
...delegate remarked to the woman tending the pamphlet counter that her husband didn't go for New Thought. "A lot of them don't," said the saleslady sympathetically. She fingered a stack of paper slips, looped together with ribbon and proclaiming: "I reject all negative thoughts from others. They may return to those who sent them. I am positive, positive, positive. Divine force is manifest in me. I am positive, positive, positive...
...goes off on some fairly esoteric, and often vague, tangents ("Families showing six-toedness as a recessive trait are a good rule-proving exception"). In a tone of things-I-never-knew-till-now, he announces several latter-day commonplaces, such as 1) under equal environmental advantages, Negroes stack up well with whites in IQ tests, 2) Negroes have no unique odor of their own, 3) Africa is a racial crazy quilt, and the modern American Negro is no more closely related to his African ancestors than a modern Greek is to an ancient Greek, 4) all blood...