Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learning, first as a wartime infantry captain, then as Assistant Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that at 40, slim, sandy-haired Gordon Gray had learned enough to run the whole show. He nominated Gray to succeed fellow North Carolinian Kenneth C. Royall as Secretary of the Army...
...been players will vie with Broadway regulars for a place in the summer sun. But, being more commercial than quaint, many a summer playhouse will depend more than ever on big names to draw vacationing theatergoers. Some stars will tour singly, others with supporting players or a whole "package" show-the growing bugaboo of resident troupes...
...A.M.A. (he will be 60 in July), Dr. Fishbein went serenely on as official spokesman for U.S. doctors. He was "Dr. A.M.A." and the man to quote on anything medical. He was quoted so often that few of his bosses ever got much attention. The front man was the whole show...
...same time we condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers. The whole spirit of free American education will be subverted unless teachers are free to think for themselves...
...purchased a ticket to an ice-hockey match. I admitted to a friend of mine that the contest was rather exciting for the first few minutes, but I was forced to add: "When you've seen them chase up and down the court once, you've seen the whole game." An old gentleman (whom I later discovered to be a prominent Boston Harvard Club member) overheard my remark, called some attendants, and had me escorted to the exit of the arena...