Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tennessee there is a plant which turns out bombs," he said. "Here is a plant which turns out ministers of the Gospel. The two seem remote and unrelated. Actually, the issue of our time-perhaps the issue of all our human time-is which of the two outputs will prevail." Then Secretary Dulles, whose son Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest two years ago, watched 179 seminarians get their degrees. One of them: his daughter, Mrs. Lillias Hinshaw, 43, wife of Manhattan Public Relations Man Robert Hinshaw (a Quaker) and mother of four. Next fall Bachelor of Divinity Hinshaw...
...excesses in gastronomy of Adams House and the excesses in artistry of Mr. Allen may not be of immediate concern to the Brattle viewing public, but they are, in a sense at least, relevant to the general mood which seemed to prevail at that hotel for the psyche. The sense was one of gladness, indeed pleasure, for Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were home again, and I feel certain I am taking no liberties when I say for my brethren viewers that the return of Bogart and Bacall fully made the day for all of us; this, in spite...
...Cola bottles, with which Author Durrell one day saw his girls pelt the police. During this "operatic phase" of the disturbances, Durrell took the post of press adviser to the governor. He still hoped that neither British hotheads ("Squeeeze the Cyps") nor Cypriot hotheads ("The British must go") would prevail. In retrospect, he believes that had Britain granted the Cypriots the right to vote on enosis, even in 20 years' time, tragedy might have been averted. Early British inflexibility, he argues, turned Coke bottles into grenades...
...going on in the world . . . The Sputniks don't mean that we'll live in a decadent America," says Publisher Lamade. "We've got to be realistic, but it's the direction in which we're headed that counts. Right and moral values will prevail in the end. Grit will remain optimistic, informative, entertaining, inspirational and forward-looking. Grit will be eternally vigilant...
...Freedom of speech must at all costs be preserved. 'Truth is mighty and will prevail.' No minister, editor, teacher, state employee, businessman or other citizen should be penalized for expressing himself freely, so long as he does so with due regard to the rights of others...