Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each spring when the Chancellor of the Exchequer presents his budget to Parliament, the imposts and expenditures which he proposes are expected to hold good for the entire year. Once in a while, he may be forced to submit an "autumn budget," a phrase which in Britain has become virtually synonymous with economic trouble. When Parliament reconvenes this week, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler will submit an autumn budget. It will be Britain's first in eight years...
...month before the election which gave Sir Anthony Eden's government a five-year lease on life. At the time, Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, cried that the voters had been "bribed," and now Laborites stand ready to exhibit Butler's "autumn budget" as proof of their charge. But with perhaps four years to go before the next election, Rab Butler and the Tories can afford a bit of political discomfort as the price of economic caution...
...come from prayer meeting. With the second part, the composition went into dance rhythms that turned misterioso with a ululating vibraphone, then into a drunken Kerry dance with skirling reeds, then into a ragtime climax followed by a pastoral section that sounded as if it should be called Alleghennian Autumn. The end, surprisingly, was an old-fashioned rumba. The total effect was rich, but a bit too facile. Here and there were fascinating details, for Composer Harris has a great gift for invention, but somehow the whole added up to less than the sum of its parts. The music seemed...
...best shows, typically, ran opposite each other. NBC's Wide Wide World whisked its audience all over the map. The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi, poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell...
...only agency permitted by law to export wheat or ship it across provincial boundaries, in August 1954 placed a limit of 300 bushels on the amount of new wheat it would accept from any farmer during the harvest season. But the harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when all the sheds were filled...