Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy Coiffure. The bloodletting was intended as a transfusion to rejuvenate the political coalition that young Hubert Humphrey put together in 1944. In a sense, the D.F.L. has been damaged by its very success. One by one, its brightest luminaries-Humphrey, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Senators Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale-have gone off to Washington, leaving the party's fortunes in less gifted hands. Rolvaag, for example, was the earnest but lackluster lieutenant governor in 1962 when he won the D.F.L. nomination for Governor simply because there was nobody else to challenge Republican Incumbent Elmer L. Andersen...
Howard Worth Smith of Virginia has followed with unsurpassed fidelity the formula of Southern political success that starts an ambitious young man in the statehouse or courthouse, then sends him up to Congress to husband seniority and power. After eight years on the bench he was elected to the House in 1930; he is still there today, still known universally as Judge Smith...
Modern industry also must have social and economic units far bigger than the family, the city or the region. It requires education not as a means of imparting fixed dogma but as a process of training the mind to seek its own answers. In short, the secret of Western success is not merely technology, but the Promethean or Faustian spirit...
...success of the 4-3-3 as an offensive setup will depend largely on the ability of the wing halfbacks to work with the forwards and score goals from the flanks...
...story is simple to the point of artlessness. It is scarcely a story at all. The book follows the course of Frank Wynn, the Powder Man of the title, from piney-woods Arkansas to success as a dynamite salesman-a calling not at all improbable in a country where blasting reclaims swampland, opens farm ditches and helps tame the Mississippi in time of flood. Frank dies, having made the discovery that "it had been more fun making his money than having...