Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin Roosevelt's second term started at 65%, was down by midyear to 60%; Harry Truman's slipped from 69% in January 1949, to 57% in March...
...came ("I'll show them. When I grow up I'll give a party where the mostes' people in the whole world come!"); the social errors in Pittsburgh ("Escargots? I thought they were snails"); the Washington party at which the offstage "voice" of Harry Truman sounded like Tennessee Ernie Ford. At show's end Perle Mesta presided in person over the teavee, pouring on more whipped cream about her good works with foreign students ("This is the kind of hostess I like being best...
...Last Word (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Truman Capote...
Seatless Schools. In actual fact, Golden's Israelite does not appeal predominantly to Jews, Northerners or radicals, but to readers with such varied views as Harry Truman and Chief Justice Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Dewey. Golden has no room for news stories, pictures or headline type. Instead, he fills the 16-page paper with witty, erudite discourse on subjects ranging from Dr. Johnson's recipe for oysters (baked in a flour-and-water batter) to Cato's hangover cure (raw cabbage leaves...
...Projection of Power. The Eisenhower Doctrine was old and also new. It was old in the sense that it hewed (as the Truman Doctrine for Greece did) to the sustained U.S. objective of seeking an area-wide, indigenous capability of self-defense and an insulation of the area's disputes against embroiling the rest of the world. It was new in that it projected the factor of U.S. power into a defense of the area. ,It was also new in its attempt to provide economic flexibility 'in achieving another sustained U.S. objective for the area-the raising...