Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would romp together uproariously. Knorke would race around the room, dive under Rosemarie's bed, scramble out the other side and leap into her arms. She found he was terribly ticklish over nearly all his body; even a slight tickling drove him into paroxysms of gorilla laughter, a rapid, staccato inhaling...
Died. Peggy Hopkins Joyce (maiden name: Margaret Upton), 64, blonde, blue-eyed, oldtime showgirl, six times married, 50 times engaged (her boast), who wed and fled three U.S. millionaires in rapid succession but collected and gloried in Rolls-Royces, furs, jewels, champagne and swimming pools until she came to symbolize the high-living, big-spending '20s; of throat cancer; in Manhattan...
Since the days of President Eliot, Harvard administrators have debated and rejected proposals to change the undergraduate program from four years to three, and revise College education to permit more rapid graduations. As the Program for Harvard College gathers momentum, the same problems of growing educational needs, and the old solution of revising the curriculum, again assume importance...
Federal Power Commission Chairman Jerome Kuykendall also sounded unhappy about the write-off. He said that FPC licensed the dams "on the premise that financing was going to be conventional.'' Though FPC knew that Idaho Power had applied for rapid amortization four years ago, it accepted the company's statement that there was "faint" chance of getting it, even defended the license in court on the ground that no Government money was involved. Embarrassed, Kuykendall admitted that "we made a mistake." It was a sizable...
...this includes Richard Nixon. Perhaps the Congressional Democrats have realized that responsibility for Democratic programs cannnot be blithely cast off without political loss. Perhaps this explains Rayburn and Johnson in their "respectable" about-faces. These turn-abouts cannot be taken too seriously, however--they probably represent only a rapid calculation of a turning tide on the issue of national defense. They do not increase the likelihood of a hardy school construction program or of an adequate UIA. The hot air of the democratic idealist seems doomed to escape with a rather unseemly phfft for at least the next few years...