Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM the special viewpoint of portrait painters, which might be defined as hungry-eyed, U.S. Presidents in general have shown one serious weakness: they dislike extended portrait sittings. And by the same token artists are apt to strike Presidents as being somewhat heedless of time and the proprieties. The classic case of this mutual difficulty came early in the nation's history, when Gilbert Stuart first set George Washington on canvas. "Now, sir," Stuart cheerily began as he took up his brush, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart the painter...
...bargaining proposal. If, said Rogers, the Congress would approve the judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half the posts with Democrats, the other half with Republicans. But Rogers' fifty-fifty idea fell with a soft plop in the Senate, where Republicans are unwilling to strike such a patronage-defeating bargain-and where Democrats seem more than willing to wait a year or so, when they hope that under their own Administration they can start rebuilding toward that nice 80% Democratic judiciary...
Drifting south to Los Angeles, he went to work as a TV announcer. Within a month, the station was hit by a strike. Douglas' reaction: he conned three actors off the picket line and sold them (complete with sponsors) to a competing channel...
...fresh surge in expenditures for new plant and equipment. Capital investment has climbed from an annual rate of $30.6 billion in the first quarter to $32.3 billion in the second to a brisk $33.4 billion, may well hit $35 billion in the fourth quarter-if a prolonged steel strike does not sabotage the economists' projections...
...best hope for solution to the seven-week-old steel strike lies in the natural pressure of economic forces on the parties involved. But when-and where-will those forces reach impasse-breaking strength? Last week, slowly but inexorably, they began to rise on all sides, starting a steady acceleration that should reach a climax in early October. By then, if the nation's basic industry is still-shuttered up, the alternative to a settlement will be real trouble for the U.S. economy. The key forces...