Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dearly love to step into Harry Byrd's shoes, would fight with all his considerable skills to keep the Commonwealth of Virginia the way the Byrd machine wants it. The national tragedy is that the 66th Governor of the Commonwealth, at a time when the nation needs the type of enlightened leadership that is its due from Virginia, declines to step into the shoes of such Virginians as Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the builders of the Union...
...mistaken for waves from a nuclear test. Seismic waves from earthquakes can be misinterpreted, too. Nuclear tests deep under the earth or ocean yield no radioactive fallout, send out no air waves or radio waves. But they do send waves through the ocean, the earth, or both. Each type of test is detectable by one or more methods...
Fred Donner, the new boss of General Motors, has seldom spoken for publication in his 32 years at G.M., has operated as a financial expert as quietly as he lived-in a modest, middle-class home in Port Washington, Long Island, the type he could buy with about four weeks' salary. Last week, in the first interview since he was named G.M. chairman, Donner spelled out his ideas to TIME Correspondent George Bookman with thin-lipped determination to let people know that he is far more than a mere book balancer, hopes to prove that he is as forceful...
Another startlingly unperceptive conclusion comes out by analogy with the action of a great automobile corporation. This corporation sent out questionnaires asking people what type of car they wanted to buy next. Responses were quite uniform. Everyone wanted a rather small, conservative economy car with little ostentation...
There were many who took full advantage of these services, and spent their summer in the steps of Wigg. These characterized the Harvard type: "so engrossed in thought as to walk through red lights," "falsely English," or "fish-belly white...