Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thou Swell (Beryl Booker Trio; Discovery). Slightly nervous but mighty high-flown ivory-tickling on another Rodgers & Hart oldie, with firm drum and bass support by an all-girl combo...
Fireproof Paint. A fire-retarding paint that can be used for home decorating has been put on sale by Glidden Co. Intense heat makes the paint swell and char, forming an incombustible protective blanket. Price: $7.95 a gallon in white, $8.35 in black and colors...
...little in the cultural output known to most Westerners, we ought not to grudge them title to this music any more than the English grudge the Edward Fitzgerald (or we begrudge the English their claim to Handel--for poor old England has produced so few great composers to swell her national pride...
Military authorities argue that if ROTC credits are cut, the number of applications would fall off drastically and the quality of students entering the units might also decline. But this need not be the case. The post-war swell in the number of ROTC men came with the mounting fears caused by the Korean hostilities. Although the danger is by no means over, there is no longer the sense of urgency that characterized the first two years of the 'fifties, when it seemed a case of join the ROTC or be drafted out of College. Students who join...
None of this bothers Harry Grant, who talks about the Journal with the purple sweep of a Fourth of July orator and the fervor of an evangelist. Says he: "The Journal must be our Fair Lady. We must have freedom, freedom, freedom-not to be willful, or bigoted, or swell-headed, or to give us delusions of grandeur-but so that the Journal can act entirely as it thinks best for the community. The Journal is above our frailties. The Journal's job is to serve the public. It can't be anything else...