Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower has laid his monster budget on the chopping block, but Congress, unaccustomed to such an offer, wants him at least to suggest where the axe might fall. The situation is almost ludicrous, except for the dangerous possibilities it entails. Unless the President assumes full responsibility for his Frankenstein or unless Congress is willing to dispose of the thing, one of its most valuble limbs--foreign aid--may be badly mangled...
...paragraph condemning Communist infiltration in the Middle East and to get Nasser to endorse the Eisenhower plan. In turn, Saud beat down Syrian Kuwatly's attempt to express appreciation of Russian help to the Arab cause, and refused Nasser's plea for support of his plan to block clearance of the Suez Canal as long as the Israelis failed to withdraw. "If you block the canal, you don't hurt the Israelis, but you do hurt your friends," said Saud, who has been losing 30% of his oil revenues because of the Suez blockage. In these arguments...
...tiny, flinty chip off the old block, who herself served as Liberal M.P. from the Welsh island of Anglesey for 22 years and as deputy party leader for two, Megan Lloyd George turned Laborite-in 1955, and when taxed about it replied: "I'm a radical, like my father before me. The Liberal Party is no longer the home for radicals." Last week, representing her new party on the hustings for the first time, she was contesting the first Liberal seat to fall vacant since she joined Labor...
GENERAL ANILINE & FILM, richest enemy firm seized by U.S. in World War II, is on the block. SEC accepted the Justice Department's registration statement for sale to private U.S. iavestors of 80% of stock in $160 million company. Department hopes to get rid of its holdings despite suits by 1,500 foreign shareholders to block sale...
Britain's economizing Earl of Harewood, 34, eleventh in succession to the throne, flinched on examining his taxes and living expenses, decided to auction off a goodly lot of his family silverware next month. Biggest prize to go on the block: a toilet service featuring Chinese figures, once the pride of King Charles II, valued at "several thousand pounds...