Word: staidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first flurries of angry disappointment last week, sensible Britons were reconciled to the unpleasant facts. Intoned London's staid Times: "BOAC must be allowed to purchase the best aircraft for their services irrespective of the country in which they are made. Otherwise the corporation cannot compete with other airlines, not merely American airlines, but all others which use American airliners where they give the best performance...
...Morseberger combination is an odd product of staid, cautious, conservative Oregon, the Vermont of the West. Morse and Neuberger may not be men to match Oregon's mountains but, like mountains, they fill...
...villain, he became the U.N.'s No. 1 crowd-puller. He brought a kind of energy to the staid U.N. and many delegates liked to cross swords with him, watch him flail the table with his fists, see the top of his head go pink with anger. Some diplomats had a certain sympathy for him, but Vishinsky never allowed sympathy to break through his guard, constantly embarrassed hosts and guests with personal attacks. "Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix...
Soon the defiantly avant-garde Emily Carr of youth was transformed into a dumpy, frumpy, acidulous old maid. She would plod the staid streets of Victoria with a monkey on her shoulder and a mangy sheep dog at her heels, pushing a baby carriage full of groceries, while neighbors sneered, smirked, winced, howled or froze with disdain...
...Sister Dorothy Kilgallen (TIME, Nov. 15), Handyman Bob Considine and Cartoonist Burris Jenkins Jr. (for courtroom sketches). Scripps-Howard followed suit with its own crew, including Inspector Robert Fabian of Scotland Yard, who, repelled by the Hollywood-like atmosphere of the trial, wrote icily: "In the staid atmosphere of the Old Bailey, this would not have been allowed." Even the conservative New York Herald Tribune sent a specialist: Margaret Parton, whose literate, low-keyed reporting, the first such crime reporting she has ever done, was probably the best on the trial. Newsmen, assigned to the story by papers all over...