Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Senate Leader William Fife Knowland was in the Senate restaurant having California orange juice, poached eggs, politics and legislative plans for breakfast. The six telephones in the office of Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson were beginning to jangle. From one side of Capitol Hill to the other, Topic A was: What kind of session will...
Winner Coty is unknown outside France, little known in France except to his parliamentary colleagues and an enigma to everyone for his views-whatever they are -on the liveliest topic of all, EDC. He is not a nonentity; he is, in fact, a case study in the solid bourgeois qualities that many Frenchmen want in their President. He may, just possibly, do very well in the job. Born of solid Norman stock (he is no kin to the late Perfumer François Coty, who was really a Corsican named Spoturno), René Coty hung out his shingle...
...cloakroom innuendo the appointment of Charles Bohlen as ambassador to Russia, engaging in a transatlantic cat fight with Britain's Clement Attlee. But with the adjournment of Congress, McCarthy had to scramble to keep his name in the big black type. He was beginning to sag as a topic of conversation when Harry Truman came to his aid by injecting Joe into the Harry Dexter White case-in which McCarthy had had no part. Last week, with public hearings regarding Communism in the Army Signal Corps radar laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J., McCarthy was bouncing again...
...real problem of male homosexuality involves boys who show no sign of growing out of it naturally. Partly because of strong social prejudices, partly because the topic was so long under a strict taboo, ignorance about it is almost universal. What are its causes? Can it be cured? If so, how? On these key questions, leading U.S. psychiatrists and other doctors are at last nearing agreement. A consensus...
...Topic A in the House of Commons last week was still the colonial empire. Entrenched at the dispatch box, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton faced and beat down a series of Labor attacks that were marked by their concern for the welfare of native peoples, by their antipathy toward Lyttelton and by their astonishing lack of preparation...