Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individuals have long realized: inflation means creeping poverty ... It is just possible that [the colleges] are not too far advanced in their retrenchment to set up a joint institute for the study and promotion of the advantages of a stable dollar . . . With inflation stopped, college presidents could ignore pork barrel contracts and perpetual road shows for fund raising [and] could return to their offices to plan the orderly development of their institutions...
...Down the Barrel. At Quantico, the President-whose visit to the Marines was long overdue-saw a thunderous show. From a canvas-covered grandstand, he watched marines storm objectives with tanks, flame throwers, bazookas, phosphorous grenades and 500-m.p.h. bombing attacks. A Marine major kept up a breezy ringside commentary, improving the slower moments by hinting broadly, for the President to hear, that the Marines could do even better with more equipment. A simulated carrier attack by seven banana-shaped helicopters demonstrated how troops could land behind enemy forts and disgorge their equipment in 30 seconds...
When it was over, Old Artilleryman Truman made straight for a 75-mm. howitzer, the one-hoss shay of the ordnance on display. He patted it lovingly, sternly told photographers who had snapped him peering down the barrel of a rifle a short while before that he would not pose looking down this barrel. "You don't look down the barrel of a cannon," said he, "you might get your head shot...
During a lull between visitors, he took a long, hard look down the barrel of a cannon. He vetoed the controversial basing point bill (see BUSINESS). He had waited until the tenth and last day, after which the bill would have become law without his signature. But he had intended all along to veto it, he told a caller. He felt like the blacksmith on the jury out in Missouri, said the President. The judge asked him if he felt any prejudice against the defendant. "Oh, no, judge," said the fellow. "I think we ought to give him a fair...
...ever tended the flames more assiduously or mistreated nature with more zestful enthusiasm than the little barrel of a man with the wonderful name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santisíma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men. "What is a human face?" asks Picasso. "Who sees it correctly-the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what's on the face, what...