Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Relevant to your statement that "tolerance-at least on the surface-is the conciliator's biggest asset," I would like to quote from E. M. Forster's Two Cheers for Democracy...
...Constitution"; last week George Wallace declared that "he's done more to destroy constitutional government in this country than any one man." Even Dwight Eisenhower, who thought of Warren as a mildly progressive Republican when he named him Chief Justice, reportedly described the appointment years afterward as the "biggest damfool mistake I ever made." "I wasn't close to him when I appointed him," Eisenhower later declared, "didn't really know him. But I liked his family, and I'd been told he'd been a good Governor...
...three generations, the craftsmanship of West Germany's toymaking Steiff family has delighted children the world over. As the town's biggest employer, the family has also endeared itself to the burghers of Giengen (pop. 14,000), a community of cobblestone streets and gingerbread houses that has nestled for the past 900 years in the wooded foothills of the Swabian Alps. Although it seems an anomaly in such a storybook setting, the bronze bust of Theodore Roosevelt in the lobby of Giengen's town hall is there for good reason: the Steiff company is best known...
From an unpretentious Manhattan headquarters, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. runs a prodigious organization. The Bell System operates more than half of the world's 208 million phones, reaps more revenue ($13 billion last year) than the Canadian government, is the biggest private customer in the U.S. capital market. A.T. & T. chiefs preside over a 22-man top-management group traditionally-and aptly -known as "the cabinet...
...still to tackle a host of other issues, most importantly A.T. & T.'s relations with Western Electric, the nation's eleventh biggest manufacturing company. Though Bell avoided divestiture of Western Electric on antitrust grounds through a 1956 consent decree with the Justice Department, other questions are being raised about the subsidiary, which manufactures almost all Bell System equipment. Critics charge that Bell deliberately pays inflated Western prices in order to increase the Bell System rate base by raising the value of its plant. A.T. & T. denies this, pointing to Western's slim (4.1% last year) margin...