Word: bane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expenditures, the Eisenhower Administration has sliced off a slightly smaller cut of the tax pie for the Federal Government. Last week, as state legislatures were completing their 1955 sessions, it was clear that the states are reaching out for a bigger and bigger slice. Said Chicago's Frank Bane, executive director of the Council of State Governments for the past 17 years: "In raising state taxes, there is a more extensive and more concerted drive this year -with more results. The increase this year will be almost twice as extensive and al most twice as much as the increase...
...plot of "Bizarre, Bizarre" is built around a noted mystery-writer, who admits that he has no imagination, but writes for the sake of his pretentious wife. Just when the two most fear involvement in social disgrace and disinheritance (the bane of the English middle class), they become entangled with William Kramps, the Ripper and butcher of butchers. At this point, the rich aunt, who has a secretary-companion named Victory, appears on the scene, naturally...
...bane of hi-fi wives, perhaps because female ears are more sensitive to high frequencies than the male...
This new rule, adopted for the 1954-55 season, has made the pro game a better, faster, more exciting sport. In other years, "freezing" the ball in the late stages was the bane of the game. A team that found itself a few points ahead near the end would simply pass the ball around from player to player, without trying for a basket (which would mean losing possession if the shot failed and the opponents grabbed the rebound). The trailing team would then deliberately foul to get possession (risking a one-point foul shot for a a possible two-point...
...longtime bane of French Catholic churches, known as industrie de St.-Sulpice, is on the way out. The industry: mass production of plaster images of the saints, which look like refugees from a candy factory. For decades, they have been sold in great quantities by the supply stores that ring the church of St.-Sulpice in Paris' Latin Quarter. The figures invariably have red and blue garments with gold and silver borders, and piously uptilted blue or brown eyes. As decoration they may be innocuous, but as objects of veneration they are absurd...