Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly studied elegance. The Congressmen could probably accept all of that if they were not put off by what they regard as his aloof manner. In his appearances before Congress, he is gracious, urbane and polite-perhaps over-polite. But his explanations of foreign programs often carry a trace of faint weariness that explanations should be needed. Worse, even staunch Democrats were dismayed by his espousal of Alger Hiss; and his explanation of what he regarded as the moral niceties of the question merely embarrassed them more. In their eyes, he had thus become a political liability...
Agar's political study takes its impetus from the Revolution and the formation of the Constitution (which he interprets politically as Beard does economically). He then goes on to trace the development of a second, "unwritten" constitution-a compound of political compromises and "bargains" which withstood every problem of national life in the nineteenth century but one, the Civil...
...This week the House Armed Services Committee, which had listened to eight days of angry Navy attacks on the B-36, concluded: the B-36 was bought on merit alone, without the slightest trace of "dishonesty, corruption, fraud or political chicanery...
...Team. Husky Doc Reeves looks what he is: an ex-football player. Just short of six feet, he still has a lithe, athletic bearing, no trace of waistline bulge. A broken neck (compression of the fourth cervical vertebra), suffered in the last quarter of his last game as a guard at Midland College at Fremont, still bothers him occasionally and he gets Mrs. Reeves to massage it. To encourage high-school athletics, Dr. Reeves serves (without fee) as physician for the football and basketball teams...
...Russian victims all disappeared without a trace. Chief among them were...