Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight and 6 a.m., the President vomited three times. At 7, he received a glucose and saline solution intravenously to restore body liquids. But electrocardiograms showed no recurrence of his heart trouble, and medical specialists satisfied themselves that his ileitis was not kicking up again. At the first EISENHOWER STRICKEN headlines, the Dow-Jones stock averages tumbled 4.91 points in an hour, but increasingly optimistic medical bulletins soon had Wall Street-and everybody else-feeling better. Major John Eisenhower, driving to Florida for a vacation, was told it would be all right to keep going. White House Staff Chief Sherman...
Personality. Anderson combines an easy grin and mild manner with businesslike drive and savvy, has little time for the social circuit, plenty of time for such interests as the Boy Scouts. Stricken with polio at three, he still walks with a slight limp that keeps him out of active sports and kept him out of service in World War II. Uncomfortable about missing military service, he once said, holding a forefinger a quarter-inch above his desk top: "When it comes to measuring who has given up most for his country. I measure about this high...
...intellectually dishonest and immoral." In rebuttal, Morse shouted that portly Homer Capehart is "a tub of rancid ignorance." Embarrassed by the rule-breaking spat in public, other Senators also joined in the shouting as peacemakers. Finally Wayne Morse proposed that the most intemperate salvo of his cannonade be stricken from the minutes. Thus, Capehart is no tub as far as the Congressional Record is concerned. ∙∙∙ At Washington's Griffith Stadium, Vice President Richard Nixon and his Mamie-banged daughter Patricia, 11, showed up for a baseball
...Little Saint." Wilma Montesi's grief-stricken parents, at first the object of great sympathy, proved to be shifty witnesses. Stubbornly they insisted that Wilma could not possibly have been involved with any man except the young police sergeant she-was engaged to marry. She was a "santarellina" (little saint), sobbed Mamma Montesi. Only under relentless hammering from the judge...
While Audience's poetic whimsies represent the prevailing tone, the three most interesting poems are in a more serious vein. Arthur Freeman's two pieces remind one of the psychological narrative of Ford Madox Ford: the first one with its use of colors, the second with its mutely horror-stricken irony and its dramatic development. Freeman's contributions are by far the most sincere and effective ones in the issue. John Hollander's and Richard Howard's joint whirl into impressionism is the only other serious poem which need be taken seriously. Sandra Hochman's two poems, however, at least...