Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grounded so frequently by "bugs" in the 30 miles of wiring, tubing and cables that the crews dubbed it "the ramp rooster." But after long, slow shakedown, it is now admiringly known as "the magnesium monster," and the SACmen are ready to battle anyone who says it isn't the best bomber in the world. When the Navy insisted a year ago that the B-36 could be shot down, Curt LeMay shot back a blunt answer...
Answering a reader who asked if John Roosevelt, 34, president of Lee Pharmacal Co., Inc., isn't a Republican, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in McCall's that he "is one of the members of our family who has no interest whatever in politics ... I notice, however, that [he] . . . has taken considerable interest in his brother James's campaign for the nomination for governor of California ... so he is at least interested in one Democrat...
Luks's paintings had more force than finesse; he knew the niceties of beer, bourbon, wine and cheese better than those of art, "It's in you or it isn't," he would shout when the discussion got around to painting techniques. "Who taught Shakespeare technique? Or Rembrandt? Or George Luks...
...crude, shrewd combination of sex, violence, sadism, costuming and cliche. Yerby, a 33-year-old Negro writer who hit a $250,000 jackpot with his first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, knows just what his customers like and gives it to them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well-turned legs." Morgan Brittany, a rich planter's wife, sees...
...Sadri isn't the person that his family's pastimes would suggest. He is a husky, modest, affable youth who emphatically wants to is escape from the publicity gathering of his family and settle down as an ordinary, bewildered freshman...