Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shuttling among them, he hopes to address 200,000 people in a single afternoon. Nominally a Gaullist, Pierre Poujade disclaims political ambition but he is rapidly becoming a political force to reckon with. He affects to despise the National Assembly and all its present membership. "They closed all the brothels in France but left the biggest one open," he says scornfully...
...Mary Welsh Hemingway, 46, an indefatigable former newspaper and magazine correspondent* from Minnesota, it is a fortunate day when she can reckon by 7 p.m. how many are staying for dinner and by 10 how many for the night. Life at Finca Vigia is, as she once reported it, a "perpetual weekend . . . involving time, space, motion, noise, animals and personalities, always approaching but seldom actually attaining complete uproar...
Within hours of his death, the living began to reckon Matisse's achievements. London Critic T. W. Earp called him "one of painting's lyric poets." In Paris, the French Minister of Education stated that Matisse commanded "the most French of palettes." Jack-of-Arts Jean Cocteau went further without stretching the truth very much: "He was a bright...
CANON OLIVER S. TOMKINS, 46, of Lincoln, England is the theological brain of Evanston. A member of the "Faith and Order Department," he drafted dozens of working papers. Born in China, the son of a clergyman, Tomkins knew the dangers of missionary work from childhood. Says he calmly: "I reckon I'm the last man to have had an uncle eaten by cannibals...
...dangerous wallop. But their effect on aircraft remained mainly a theoretical problem until jets started flying at the speed of sound. After passing through rain squalls at a supersonic clip, new jet fighters returned to base peppered with pits and abrasions. U.S. Air Force engineers have now begun to reckon with rain...