Word: studiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil and handsome. No other living Asian leader, with the exception of Chiang Kaishek, has fought so doggedly for his country's aspirations. He is not the kind of man who invites a slap on the back and a friendly "Hi, Pandit" (which, according to Geoffrey Gorer, a studious misinterpreter of U.S. folkways, is the only basis on which Americans really like anybody). Nehru has said of himself that he failed to identify himself with the unending procession of humanity, "and then I would separate myself and, as from a hilltop, apart, look down at the valley below...
Dean Hess, a studious lad from Marietta, Ohio, decided that he would rather fight than preach. He was a 23-year-old ordained minister in the Church of the Disciples of Christ when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; the next day, Hess enlisted as an air cadet. After winning his wings, he taught flying for two years, then went off to the ETO as a fighter pilot, piled up 62 missions and won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...studious young man of 18 taking beginners' climbs on the easy trails of Yosemite with the Stanford University Alpine Club but otherwise inconspicuous and unnoticed among 7,400 students, was rounding out his freshman year: Jon Morrow Lindbergh, eldest of five children of Charles and Anne Lindbergh...
...pleasant voice. When Nype was signed for the juvenile lead in Call Me Madam, Co-Author Russell Grouse got him to put aside his contact lenses and put on horn rims. For the show's sake, willing Russell Nype has had his hair mowed down to a studious stubble. On opening night, he and Ethel Merman stopped the show with the hit duet, You're Just in Love, have been stopping it ever since...
Italy's studious Premier Alcide de Gasperi gave other Europeans a lesson on how to face an issue. In a two-hour speech to the Senate last week, he closed a furious week-long debate on foreign policy by aligning his country squarely behind the Atlantic Treaty. He made no concessions to either the 67 Communist Senators, who jeered as he spoke, or wavering members of his own party who are still afraid of provoking the Russians. He said...