Word: formula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiastic comment: "Great . . . Isn't this fun . . . Wonderfully exciting ..." Cried he, spotting a three-year-old girl at Niagara Falls: "Hi, sweetie pie. I wish I had your freckles." Promised he, speaking at a Republican State Committee dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel: the same zestful formula that got him elected Governor last fall "will put New York in the Republican column in the next national elections...
...Japan. New to politics, this flamboyant sect first made its mark in the April municipal elections when 337 of its 362 candidates were elected to office. Founder Tsunesaburo Makiguchi believed that mankind's salvation lay in the teachings of the Buddhist saint Nichiren* By merely chanting the magic formula, "Namu My oho Rengekyo [I devote myself to the Scripture of the Lotus of the Wonderful Law]," a believer not only freshens his mind but is able to endure and overcome sickness, misfortune, poverty and unhappiness...
Without fuss or bitterness, the segregated public schools of St. Louis were smoothly integrated four years ago. Children were ordered to attend schools in their own neighborhoods, and no transfers were allowed. But that effective formula (also followed in Washington, D.C.) re-emphasized a sad, subtle U.S. segregation of another kind. In 14 major cities, from Boston to Los Angeles, it blights 25% to 35% of 3,200,000 children in public schools. Worried schoolmen call it "the problem of the culturally handicapped." They mean the mental ghettos in which thousands of dispirited Negro children live because no one-teachers...
...passed a bill to increase federal income taxes on U.S. insurance companies from $319 million this year to $500 million. The bill had the endorsement of 34 life insurance companies who write 70% of U.S. life insurance. They would have had to pay even more under an old tax formula, which was to take effect again this year when current stopgap formulas expire...
...Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.' " Despite its irritating quality, the formless formula works well enough in evoking the often simultaneous boyhood moods of scorn, fear, sentimentality, barefootedness and gleeful obscenity. Writes Kerouac at wild random: "A young and silly dove is yakking in the blue, circling the brown and slushy river with yaks of pipsqueak joy," and "the mystery which...