Word: stack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While he was strongly helped by the support of almost every important organization Democrat in the state (which he also had in Minnesota), Adlai made a stack of political hay on his own by spending more time with the people and less with the phrases, by lightening and brightening his speeches, and by rubbing more elbows. Still sensitive and a little selfconscious, Stevenson was not completely at home in his new campaign methods, and at times he was embarrassed. In Los Angeles' Pershing Square, for example, he approached an old man sitting on a bench and said...
...arms; the U.S. did not agree with Britain that Egypt's Premier Nasser was a menace. The President saw no need for "a firmer line": "I would have to say 'firmer line' with respect to what, where, when . . . [The Middle East problem] is like a stack of jackstraws. Every time you touch one, you are very apt to move the whole crowd, and equilibrium is, to a certain extent, destroyed. That is what we don't want." Asked if he would order "those Marines that were sent over to the Mediterranean" into war without the consent...
...community of learning." Durn tootin'. It's their sneaky way of packing the tutors and other helpful types in so close you can't breathe. The teacher-student ratio around here is 1 to 7, and the way to milk the most out of the ratio is to stack tutors and students in the same entries, like wildcats in a laundry bag. People think I run up and down stairs because I'm busy. Busy, hell. My tutor lives between me and the bottom of the stairs. Every time he catches me on the stairs it ruins...
...complaint from the German Skating Federation, accusing Ronnie Robertson of demanding more than legal expense money for his European exhibitions this winter, threw his second-place victory into doubt. As vocal as any of "the skating mothers," Ronnie's father. Naval Architect Albert R. Robertson, blew his stack: "It's politics, stinking politics." Said Ronnie's coach, Gus Lussi: "The whole thing is fishy, and I think it started in this country, not abroad...
...Berkeley, Calif., but they could be detected only indirectly by a complicated electronic method (TIME, Oct. 31). Scientists wanted to "see" them by one of the more direct methods that they use to make subatomic particles visible. So the Berkeley scientists shot antiprotons from their great machine into a stack of photographic films. Their hope was that they would find microscopic tracks in the films that could be identified as the work of an antiproton...