Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responses will be measured on the earth below. Physicians will be hearing the sounds of his heart, the sounds of his breathing, watching the electrical activity of his heart and muscles and taking his temperature and blood pressure, all by remote control and radio link. He may feel less sure in his mind as to the state of his psychological being. The curious finger of fate has pointed him out to be hurled into space to make the supreme test as to whether man can function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample from...
...Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton had been mentioned to succeed him. Was the President agreeable? Ike. who had hand-picked Morton five weeks earlier, went along with custom, announced that he would be very pleased indeed. Added he in an uncustomary tribute to Meade Alcorn: "I sure did like that guy, and it made me so mad tohave to lose...
...Mitchell was roundly applauded by an audience that might well have booed. Perhaps it was because he had spoken forthrightly. Or perhaps because a good many of the not-too-heavyhearted delegates were just as sure as Jim Mitchell that he would not have...
...embittered by the attacks that he rebelled against his convention-bound background, to become a news-and-be-damned reporter. In 1938 he was tapped by Bonnier to start the LiFE-like picture weekly Ssee, soon showed an executive's firm hand for organization, an editor's sure touch for pictures and pithy sentences...
...benefits to the economy. Union Boss Dave McDonald is not so much interested in a hefty wage boost as in fringe benefits, whose cost is less evident. He is likely to emphasize pension terms, better hospitalization and medical plans, more generous unemployment benefits. But the big firecracker that is sure to set up a ringing in management's ears is a share-the-work plan to reduce the dangers of unemployment by giving each worker a three-month vacation with pay every five years; when the senior workers go off, younger men will fill in. Says McDonald: the idea...