Word: tailored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With so much money to give, a foundation can easily tempt a scholar to distort his work in order to be pleasing ("Of course," says one Midwest political scientist, "professors distort and tailor their project requests. They aren't dumb. If they know the magic words to say to the foundation boys, they're going to say them"). The foundation must also be wary of overselling a university on a project that it really has no business taking on. It must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight...
Died. Grant Mitchell, 82, longtime (since 1902) character actor of stage (A Tailor-Made Man, Tide Rising) and screen (Hell's Kitchen, Cinderella Jones); in Hollywood...
...practice pitches. Connecticut's Vivien Kellems, who was billed as expert on taxes, laid down the condition that her questions be limited to U.S. income tax. The producers obliged. One noncelebrity candidate for the $64,000 Challenge says that in her screening interview she was assured that "we tailor questions to the kind of mind we are working with...
...through the crowd in the U.S. Senate's caucus room, David Daniel Beck had his three-diamond ring turned into the palm of his left hand ("I always wear it that way because the light flashes in my eyes"). In his lightweight, grey, tailor-made suit,* his double teardrop (one white, one red) cravat and his toothiest smile, Teamster Boss Beck was the picture of resplendent confidence. "Are you nervous?" asked a reporter. "Nervous?" barked Beck...
...witness before the McClellan committee wore monogrammed silk shirts and tailor-made suits that followed more after George Raft than Brooks Brothers. As he gestured with his carefully manicured hands, he flashed gold cuff links. His handsome face was bronzed by many a day spent under the sun at Santa Anita, Tanforan and Bay Meadows. Only his slightly cauliflowered left ear betrayed the past of Frank William Brewster, 60, West Coast boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as a brick-fisted mug. The story of the first phase of the McClellan committee's investigation is the story...