Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primarily concerned with Good and Evil and with man's relation to the powers of light and night. But in recent years a difference can be discerned. In earlier times (Buffalo Bill, William S. Hart), the hero was completely identified with Good, the villain with Evil. In the upshot, Good destroyed Evil. But the victory often proved an illusion. Usually, the prize for which the hero fought was a woman; but in the end he often did not claim her at all, or if he did, what he got was a sexless ninny. Yet in many of the recent...
...after that for a parley at the summit (probable location: Geneva). Next morning the President called in congressional leaders-Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck-gave a total briefing. Said Speaker Rayburn afterward: "The upshot of it is that we are united. We don't have any political parties when it comes to this. We think with the President that we must remain firm...
...slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken by his joy ride, the Senator checked in later at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital, where the medics plastered a cast around badly sprained ligaments, a dislocated kneecap. Obvious upshot: no racer for young David...
...bouncy, 17-year-old high school girl named Susan Johnson had arrayed herself in a midshipman's uniform, invaded the academy, stood formation, attended mess with 3,600 midshipmen, had gaily run down dormitory corridors popping into rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment, and three midshipman officers who knew of the plot were broken to the ranks (the academy first said the demotions were merely for "administrative reasons"). Second upshot: Dr. Marius Johnson grounded his high-sailing daughter Susy...
...Upshot of Los Angeles' worrisome week was that the city's 6,000.000. to hear AEC tell it. had been exposed in six hours to roughly the amount of radioactivity that they would normally receive from the atmosphere in 24 hours. Radioactively speaking, L.A. had thus lived two days in one. But the L.A. radioactivity reading was possibly the highest radioactivity level ever recorded in the continental U.S. outside the test grounds. The miracle of it was that, with all the scare headlines, radio and TV broadcasts, the citizenry had taken it as calmly...