Word: thoughte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready-to-Wear. In Memphis, a department-store detective thought Shopper Edward Earl Clements was too fat to be true, found under his bulging coat: four sports shirts, two raincoats, two bottles of cologne, a 2-lb. box of candy, several belts...
...President delighted his Republican audience with some joshing remarks about Mamie. "After the 1952 campaign, one of the expert political analysts told my wife, I thought very unwisely, that she was responsible for 74 electoral votes. I have never before admitted to her that I thought that was an underestimate. Now in 1956, a man came in with what was obviously a rather preposterous proposal. Finally she said to me, 'If you do that, I'll take my 74 electoral votes and walk...
...Grey" was finally indicted by a New York grand jury for illegal matchmaking and managing fighters under the table. Carbo promptly disappeared, was caught only three weeks ago as he fled from police at his New Jersey hideout. Frankie was the picture of innocence, said he ran because "I thought it was a rubout...
Five months ago, U.S. negotiators struggling to achieve an agreement with the Russian scientists on a detection system for atomic explosions were thrown into confusion. Tests had shown that underground explosions could not be detected so far away as had been thought, but the Russians refused to increase the number of detection stations the U.S. had first proposed. Since then, U.S. efforts have been directed at discovering means to improve the sensitivity of detection with the stations proposed. Last week, as negotiators prepared to resume the suspended talks at Geneva, word leaked of a report submitted to President Eisenhower which...
...every legal, political or economic question that came before the city's councils (he developed Geneva's cloths and velvet trade and even introduced an advanced system of sanitary regulations). Doctrine for him was never a speculative but a practical matter, and the waves of his theocratic thought rolled on through the centuries to reappear in Scottish Presbyterianism and New England Puritanism...