Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little secret of the fact that they feel Lemnitzer does not have the forceful personality to fit the job. Lemnitzer's successor, General George Decker, 59, is a first-rate controller, a crack golfer and a man who has been described as being "as colorless as a bushel basket full of fog." Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr, on leave from his job as president of the University of West Virginia, has yet to learn his job, recently admitted publicly that he did not know the difference between a battalion and a battle group...
...squat, package laden man saw the bushel basket of mice in Filene's and snapped at his spouse, "That's you all over again. The great collector...
...street as to the professional economist, the best barometer of inflation is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index, which charts monthly changes in the prices of some 300 items in a "market basket" bought by the average city dweller. Every time the index rises a half point or more, it triggers automatic wage hikes for 2,600,000 industrial-union members. By moving upward over the past two years (it is now at a record high of 127.5), the index has conditioned most Americans to believe that the U.S. is gripped by creeping inflation. Last week...
Everyone knows the price of a hot dog -but who can estimate the value of a dog bed once owned by Marie Antoinette? Any housewife knows what to pay for a dozen oranges-but how much must she spend for a Basket of Fruit by Cézanne? The price of good art and antiques tends to fluctuate by nations, by year, by fashion, by taxes and by trickery...
Someone was in the Kitchen Cabinet with Bundy. Widely reported as having written off the Administration's early accomplishments-"At this point, we are like the Harlem Globetrotters, passing forward, behind, sideways and underneath. But nobody has made a basket yet"-White House Aide McGeorge Bundy blew the whistle last week. Explaining that he had just been fending off compliments to the Kennedy Administration, had quoted Cambridge-Washington Colleague Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (who had in turn borrowed the gag from Capital Attorney Paul A. Porter), Harvard's ex-faculty dean hustled out his own scorecard: "My position...