Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magoffin Humphrey is painfully aware of a mounting Midwest crisis for the G.O.P. Growing Old Guard resentment at Eisenhower Republicans has already cost the Republicans some key statehouses, congressional seats and a Wisconsin Senate seat, may inflict even more wounds in the 1958 congressional elections unless the right wing starts fighting Democrats instead of Ike Republicans. Visiting Chicago last week for what Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had proclaimed as "George Humphrey Day," the ex-Treasury Secretary spoke at a fund-raising banquet in his honor, volunteered a Dutch uncle's advice. Stop complaining about little things...
Folks in Worthington, Mass. (pop. 515) are as tradition-prim and Yankee-proper as any other New Englanders, and they usually have a cold and suspicious eye for strangers. But right from the start they accepted George Humphrey, a nice fellow who last year bought a big, 15-room colonial house on 130 acres, and moved in with his wife and children...
...many ways." Said Jean Humphrey (who plans to continue her dancing classes): "I want to stay here in Worthington. All of a sudden, I have discovered the best friends I have ever known. It's where everything is out in the open, where everybody knows . . . We'll start all over again...
...President Munro, lawyer and onetime newspaper editor who has served at the U.N. for the past five years, promised to gavel quickly for order, start the sessions on time, and get everybody home for Christmas. "I can see no reason at all," he said, "why we should not have a reasonably tranquil session." It was another matter how many problems the session would settle...
...public statements (though his personal newspapers were bitterly anti-American), and because both he and General Phao were personally unpopular with Thailanders, the U.S. has in recent months been sharing their odium. While the new government was settling in, U.S. diplomats would themselves have a welcome chance to start afresh...