Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their Black Curls!" Before 7 a.m. on back-to-school day crowds of white people began to gather outside the schools where Negro children had been registered-and it was clear that Nashville was in for serious trouble. There were scrawny, pinch-faced men in T shirts and jeans, vacant-faced women in curlers and loose-hanging blouses, teen-age boys in tight pants and greased ducktail hairdos. They flaunted Confederate flags and placards, e.g., WHAT GOD HAS PUT ASUNDER LET NOT MAN PUT TOGETHER...
...Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis B. Mayer, the aging (72) lion trainer who retired six years ago, but whose cream-colored, leather-paneled office is still kept vacant. Along with his two allies, said President Vogel, Old L.B. is "actively attempting to seize control...
...Fred Clark Scribner, 49, was nominated by President Eisenhower to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for general administration, filling a post that has been vacant since H. Chapman Rose left in early 1956. Born in Bath, Me., Scribner was educated at Dartmouth ('30) and Harvard Law School ('33); he first practiced law in Portland, later entered politics (national G.O.P. committeeman 1948-56) and served as vice president of Maine's Bates Manufacturing Co. until 1955, when he went to Washington as general counsel of the Treasury. Last February he was named one of four assistant secretaries...
When refugees from several Hungarian orchestras poured into Austria last winter, U.S. and Swiss funds helped house them and launch them on new musical careers. The musicians moved into a vacant hotel, and Conductor Rozsnyai set to work trying to whip them into shape. He prescribed six hours of practice a day; corridors echoed with violins being tuned and pianists rippling through arpeggios...
...there is precisely where the hope lies. Originality, for some, has become an urgent compulsion, not merely a contemporary fad. Perhaps the efforts of these few will spur the rest to think, to act, to be themselves. Perhaps somewhere in this vacant land, the value of character and personality will again be forced to the front, to battle with the hollow-eyed crowd of Others. And the battle will be good...