Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they have each year in the thousands of years since the time of legendary King Indradyumna, the three gods made their triumphal procession from their temple at Puri to their summer house, a mile away down a broad avenue. It was an awesome sight. For Jagannath is the famous Juggernaut, riding the vast cart beneath whose creaking wheels fanatic worshipers once threw themselves to be crushed to death...
...people." Lack of artistic freedom ("I'm the lost soul of you chappies") drove Chayevsky to Hollywood. "I didn't make hardly any money out of the movie Marty," he rumbled. "But we had a ball and it was fun." As examples of what TV -"a malevolent juggernaut that's gonna chew me up"-will no longer let him do, he muscularly cited some unusual themes: a woman relieving anxiety over menopause by "throwing a pass" at one of her son's friends; the emotional pattern of an American Communist; the tortures of a man discovering...
...League. Quarterback Frank Finney is the league's leading passer (outshining even Cornell's Tom Skypeck last week) and a good runner as well. Don Warburton--captain, center, and linebacker--is Brown's mainstay on defense, and 205-1b. Paul Choquette, a fullback who combines a juggernaut charge with surprising speed, rounds out this deadly up-the-middle combination...
...likelihood is slim, therefore, that Turkey would ever launch agressive action against either the Syrians--whose weak army could offer little resistance to the confident and trigger-happy Turkish juggernaut--or against the Russians, whose size and atomic strength unfortunately, for the Turks, preclude the thought of risking a grudge war. But on the other hand, the strength and toughness of the Turkish army now being manifested in the muscle-flexing along the Syrian border should be sufficient to deter reckless moves within Syria. Yet the hard reality of the situation in the Middle East today is that a miscalculation...
...Prayerful and humble as Billy Graham is," the Century answers itself, "his plans and his methods show no faith in the caprice of the Holy Spirit . . . There is something horrifying in this monstrous juggernaut rolling over every sensitivity to its sure triumph . . . The most worrisome aspect of the whole Graham phenomenon, perhaps, has been the failure of nerve in men who know better, the atrophy of critical faculties. Worst of all has been the drive to smother opposition, to engulf critics, to surround criticism. In the good name of unity, Billy and his friends have pressed for a dangerously anti...