Word: bandwagons
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...million last fiscal year, the fastest-growing part of the domestic disposal program is the handout program to welfare and needy families: last fiscal year $90 million worth of food was given to 3,100,000 people in 36 states. More and more states are hopping on the bandwagon; only last month New York signed up to receive its share of the free groceries...
...there emerged a strange coalition of forces, united only by their interest in fishing in troubled waters. Indian Communists, who a few weeks earlier had been denouncing the Gujaratis as "moneybag oppressors" of the Marathas, now rushed to champion the Gujarati cause. Local Socialists jumped on the bandwagon. And huffing and puffing alongside these leftist troublemakers were Gujarati businessmen and mill owners who foresaw difficulties in handling Maratha labor in a state dominated by Maratha voters. Between them, these strange allies produced a breakdown of law and order in Ahmedabad...
...newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines and two book publishers prepare to jump aboard the bandwagon that looks disconcertingly like a hearse...
...Construction of St. Mark's Catholic parochial school there was held up for two days by pickets until the contractor, N. A. Thomas of Racine, trucked away 34 pieces of Kohler plumbing worth $3,500. In some areas even state and municipal governments have hopped on the boycott bandwagon. The Massachusetts Legislature and Boston's City Council condemned purchases from Kohler. So have the councils of Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Ansonia, Conn., and Lincoln Park, Mich...
...first big hint came when Truman said caustically: "I have little faith in the value of the bandwagon operation nor in the reliability of polls-political polls." Truman made his decision even more obvious with the words: "I realize that my expression of a choice at this time will cause disappointment in some and may cause resentment in others, but against the mounting crises in the world, I know that this convention must name a man who has the experience and the ability to act as President immediately upon assuming that office, without risking a period of costly and dangerous...