Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards by pooling economic information and skill...
...lever the U.S. into greater generosity. Last October the government announced it was trading 20,000 bags of cocoa for 60,000 tons of Soviet crude. But the Russian oil turned out to be the same type of paraffin-heavy crude that Brazil is already forced to export for lack of refining capacity...
When Marclan Walker was born in Griffin, Ga., she weighed 7 Ibs. and appeared perfectly normal, just like her two older sisters. Not until Marclan was five months old did her mother notice anything unusual. Then it was a lack of infant energy. "I had no worry about her falling or wriggling off a bed," Myrtis Walker says, "because she just stayed exactly where she was put." But soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus...
Actually, the main trouble with the picture is the lack of a controlling sense of style in the acting-a common fault in Hollywood's period pieces. Actor Boyer, for instance, falls somewhere between Paris and Hollywood, but wherever it is, it is not New Orleans. And he seems understandably embarrassed by many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits...
...time when "presidential leadership" or lack of it is a heated topic, Schlesinger's assessment of Roosevelt as an executive is intriguing. On the book's evidence. Roosevelt dodged decisions as long as he could, operated in a wild confusion of often contradictory ends, preferred to create ten new jobs rather than abolish an existing one. All this Schlesinger defends as a manifestation of genius, the triumph of flair over disorder; and in a sense perhaps...