Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last May Colonel Johnstone slapped a 10 o'clock weekday curfew on teenagers. At the same time he also went after their mothers. Again and again, he heard complaints that someone had made a lewd remark to a G.I. wife in a PX or pinched her bottom. The trouble was, said the colonel, that too often such women came in two categories-either "provocatively clad" or, if "less young and shapely, disgustingly clad." Last week the colonel clamped down in earnest. From now on, any serviceman's wife who tries to enter a public building on base will...
...very shocked to read Commissioner King's remark: ". . . The voice of the pulpit should be the voice of the congregation." This quotation is definitely not Presbyterian in meaning, and certainly it is not true to Reformed theology and to prophetic tradition. The Presbyterian Church has always zealously guarded the minister's own prerogative to preach as the Holy Spirit, not man, gives him guidance...
...Nixon Fund," which also makes the most dramatic reading in the book. Ike was at first undecided about whether or not to drop his running mate and told reporters that anyone on his ticket would have to prove himself "clean as a hound's tooth." Hearing about the remark, Nixon "forced a disbelieving smile and muttered something to himself." Later, Ike seemed to try to postpone a decision; reports Mazo: "Nixon stiffened and said sternly, 'There comes a time in a man's life when he has to fish or cut bait.' (Actually, his words were...
...Republican nomination, and no reporter-not even one as able as Earl Mazo-can say how Nixon really feels about that. The Vice President is saying all the right things ("The times may require and demand a man with different qualifications"). More to the point may be another remark: "I never in my life wanted to be left behind...
Both the Wertheim and Pearlman Collections have the consistency of excellence and caring taste which establish great collections: their exhibition, along with the Fogg's own fine 19th century collection, leads Miss Agnes Mongan, Acting Director of the Fogg, to remark with justifiable pride: "You would have to go a long way--either across America or upon the Continent--to find a better 19th century collection this summer." For those readers who prefer deeds to words, a rather partial inventory of the collections shows: 12 water-colors and drawings by Cezanne, and oils by the following: Gauguin (1), Monet...