Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faubus is at high tide here. And his ability to whip the legislators into line on his policies is well known. He is considered an astute vote-getter and few bills bearing his approval have failed in the legislature...
...Year: Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas-the only man to stem the black tide...
...warmth was kindled a year ago when President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles pledged that rebellious Poles and Hungarians could henceforth "draw on our abundance to tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment." Crushed by Russian tanks, the Hungarians were unable to take advantage of the U.S. offer. But the Poles, determinedly establishing themselves as the freest of Russia's satellites, could and did. To Washington came an economic delegation that negotiated an agreement for $95 million worth of U.S. aid and went home with the possibility of receiving even more. In addition, the U.S. eased restrictions...
...Unrealistic. When physicians cannot afford extra help, nurses, technicians, receptionists and doctors' wives are pressed into service to roll back the paper tide. The physician himself must read all the reports and sign them, must give technical information that only he can supply (some insurance companies even require reports in the doctor's own handwriting). Says an Atlanta surgeon: "I could spend a whole day right now, just dictating answers to this stack of forms here on my desk. But if I did that, how am I going to care for the people over at the hospital waiting...
...vampires, hyperpituitary apes, cat men, spacemen and skirt-chasing tyrannosaurs. Here budgets are low, actors obscure (Bela Lugosi is dead and Boris Karloff has graduated to TV) and taglines visceral: The Man Who Turned to Stone ("Incredible revelations from the blackest annals of medicine!"), Zombies of Mora Tau ("A tide of terror!''), Half Human ("Half-man, half-beast, but ALL MONSTER...