Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term in Washington and struck out for the Governor's job. He lost by 157 votes in 1946, came back to win in 1948 and again in 1950. The following year, Governor Adams swung behind Dwight Eisenhower, although the two had never met, and turned a strong Taft tide in New Hampshire to help Ike win the presidential primary in 1952. Adams' knowing way with politics and his efficiency as Ike's floor manager at the Chicago convention brought him close to the man who was going to be his boss. Ike liked his snappy, almost wordless...
Even more surprising was the number of rank-and-file party workers-already in real trouble fighting the Democratic tide, already aware that Ike is of little value in local elections-who are appalled at the thought of the Administration's being a deadweight. Only four G.O.P. Senators, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New York's Jacob Javits, Kansas' Frank Carlson, supported the President's stand on Adams-and they are not candidates...
...Eric flies his hawk at Einar's face, and the beast tears out one of his eyes-a scene that is especially effective in Technicolor. In reprisal, Eric is chained in a tidal pool to be eaten alive by crabs, but he calls on Odin, and the tide goes...
...days when the English milord traveled through remote and dangerous foreign lands with nothing but a valet, a revolver and a universally acceptable bag of sovereigns, are, alas (and partly by our own folly), long gone," sighed the British weekly, Time & Tide, last week...
...impoverished milord of today needs to be just as resourceful in dealing with the hostile natives," Time & Tide continued. "A friend of mine who has spent the past couple of years in the Middle East was annoyed at the way so many Arabs carried pictures of Colonel Nasser and kept bringing them out and kissing them. He was very grateful to TIME Magazine, he said, for publishing a cover picture of Sir Anthony Eden. Now he carries that around wherever he goes and kisses it ostentatiously in return...