Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another story which dealt with President Truman's news classification directive, Louis M. Lyons, Curator of Nieman Fellowships, said he "had no intention of ascribing any taint of politics to the Association of Managing Editors' protest at the President's directive." He pointed out that he was "with them on it 100 percent...
Even as an undergraduate, Crane was interested in the problems of municipal government. His senior thesis dealt with the need for a new system of government in Cambridge. "You might call this my life project. Now I can watch my hopes, my ideas, my desires actually work...
Dean Acheson, who made the show run like clockwork, was in his element. Urbane and unruffled, he dealt with the Communists as a Groton football coach with a bunch of interloping ruffians who don't know the rules of the game. He out-talked the Reds without raising his voice, lectured Gromyko on parliamentary procedure, without once getting hot under his immaculate collar or ruffling the tips of his mustache...
...Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer is probably the only well-known diplomat in the world who regularly finds it necessary to insist that he is 1) a poor and 2) an honest man. So many firemen, cops, politicos and Old Pals dealt in skulduggery during his years as mayor of New York that O'Dwyer is continually being asked embarrassing questions about his relations with them. Last week the Kefauver committee reversed the process, called in Old Pal Irving Sherman and asked him why he had been so chummy with the mayor...
...when its publicity stills of Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in B.V.D. bathing trunks helped start the fad of topless swimming trunks for men. With the late Cinemactress Jean Harlow as a model, B.V.D. helped start the trend toward skirtless, one-piece bathing suits for women. But in 1934, Hollywood dealt men's underwear a near-mortal blow. In It Happened One Night, Clark Gable took off his shirt, and revealed that he wore no undershirt. Sales of men's underwear in the U.S. dropped 40% in a single year...