Word: squirming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their frequent irritation at Supreme Court decisions, some Senators cannot resist the temptation to make court appointees squirm. Last week Cincinnati's Potter Stewart, 44, youngest justice in 20 years, got the special treatment when the Judiciary Committee took up his interim appointment (to succeed ailing Justice Harold Burton, TIME...
...astonishing number of congressional Republicans were openly delighted to see Adams squirm. Some had been offended when he left them dangling at the other end of a dead telephone. Some resented the fact that he had pursued the President's dictum that the White House should work with Congress through the leadership; they felt that as a result, Adams had locked them out of the White House. Then there were the old-line Taft-men. "That sonofabitch," said one bitterly. "He was one of those who went down to Texas and planted that flag-'Thou Shalt Not Steal...
...Manhattan's grandiose, slow-moving, multi-mused Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts inches closer to completion. On the drawing boards since 1956, the project, which eventually will become a six-building headquarters for the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and other highbrow projects, has had to squirm past hassles with disgruntled tenants and will not be completed before...
...tall work showing two figures. Though one head is still to be found, they are obviously a man and a woman, clothed in the style of a Yoruba tribe wedding ceremony. With his left leg wrapped around the right leg of his partner, the male seems to squirm in anticipation. Their arms are linked like square dancers on promenade. The Yoruba believe the lovers to be Oba Tala, the first...
...character in a drama announced that he would forgo his M.D. ambitions and settle for becoming a chiropractor, howls arose from chiropractors. Securities dealers and the New York Stock Exchange itself kick at the sight of a shady stockbroker, and Manhattan pawnbrokers (many of whom are of Irish extraction) squirm in writing at what they sometimes consider anti-Jewish characterizations...