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Word: staid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the staid A.P., a nonprofit cooperative owned by its member newspapers, the United Press for half a century has aggressively sold its product to all comers. Thus, it has never wavered from Founder E. W. ("Damned Ol Crank") Scripps's belligerent belief that only a profitable news service can achieve editorial impartiality. The first major U.S. news service to prosper as a commercial undertaking, the U.P. today is the world's most enterprising wire-news merchant, an international giant serving 1,560 U.S. newspapers and 3,270 other clients in the U.S. and 71 foreign countries (estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First Half-Century | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...dawned cold, and though the rain from the day before had stopped the overcast sky seemed to predict snow and possibly something else. The something else arrived, staring the freshman, the sophomore, the junior, the senior in the face as he opened his door and picked up his usually staid, quiet-looking CRIMSON. Black headlines leaped...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Class of '32: First Two Years | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Power. The day before, Vice President Radhakrishnan, onetime Oxford don, had been even blunter. "The craze for power and personal ambition [has created] a state of demoralization," he said. These and other signs of political stirring by long-ossified Congress members throughout the country were regarded by the staid Times of India as "an examination of the conscience." The Times thought sadly that the examination might have come too late. "Congress was once a good cause," the paper said. "Now it's degenerating into a bad habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Put Out No Flags | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

When wife Carmen, who was a solo dancer for the Metropolitan Opera ballet, became pregnant, Holder filled in for her, shook the house to its staid foundations when he appeared in a white bikini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tornado From Trinidad | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Louis also had a hidden asset: a man named Raymond Roche Tucker. Fourth-generation St. Louisan Ray Tucker, now 60, was raised on the staid, comfortably middle-class South Side, attended both public and parochial schools, scholarshiped his way through St. Louis University ('17). Set on a teaching career, he went on to Washington University for a B.S. in mechanical engineering, got it in 1920, was rewarded with a post on the engineering faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of the Blues | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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