Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year proved the gloomsayers wrong. Just as the U.S. learned to under stand its new economy, so Canadians discovered that their young, dynamic land was increasingly able to stand on its own feet. Canada did not tumble into the V-shaped chasm that threatened briefly to trap the U.S. economy. If anything, Canada's recession was milder than the slump in the U.S. Except in the winter months, unemployment hit a smaller part of the working force in Canada. Industrial production sagged less sharply, recovered earlier. At year's end Canadians added up a new $32 billion record...
...Jesuit weekly, America, Robert A. Graham, S.J., added a blast of Catholic wrath at the Protestants' position. The World Order Conference's resolution, wrote Graham, is a stand "to puzzle and dishearten those who expected something more worthy of the cause of peace to which the delegates were dedicated ... In its silences and evasions, in its carefully phrased ambiguities and obvious inconsistencies, this would-be message of hope is a ghastly monument of abandonment. Its high words about the love of Christ and its vision of a world community willed by God sound fearfully hollow against its deep...
Unitas had to do the job against the toughest defense in pro football. The Giants' defensive team had already blocked a Colt field-goal try, smeared Unitas himself at crucial moments, made a devastating goal-line stand inside its own 5-yd. line and had roared back from a 14-3 half-time deficit on the wings of aging (37) Quarterback Charley Conerly's passes for two touchdowns...
Ironically, many seats went empty on planes. Thousands of passengers booked seats on several airlines in hopes of getting on just one. then forgot to cancel. One major line had 600 no-shows in one city. This left space aplenty for stand-by passengers, who had the patience and courage to wait at drafty airports for any space available. Actually, most travelers got where they wanted to go, but many had to wind around circuitous routes on odd carriers, arrived frazzled...
...back at them. French Novelist Romain Gary, who wrote one of the best and most serious novels of 1958 in The Roots of Heaven, has turned out what is bound to be one of the most urbanely amusing novels of 1959. The Roots of Heaven was a poetic last stand in the name of freedom. Lady L. is for freedom, too-freedom from people who are so grimly determined to make men free that they lose sight of humanity and become petty tyrants themselves...