Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first budget outing, Thorneycroft kept to the traditions by droning a prosaic prognosis of the nation's economic health until 4:30, the hour the Stock Exchange closed. Then, safe at last to let his secrets out, the youthful-looking Chancellor raised his voice and announced bold changes in the country's tax setup...
With an almost audible sigh of relief, Great Britain last week laid down its role of policeman to the world, and in one bold step advanced into the nuclear age, where its troops will be fewer, its weapons deadlier, and its costs lower. In doing so, Britain almost gratefully abandoned its claim, which has sounded increasingly hollow even to British ears, to rank with the world's two major military powers...
Unless state politicians produce "bold imaginative party leadership," Williams foresaw "a picture of frustrated scatteration of local governmental jurisdiction, clogged highways, polluted water and air, and crazy-quilt development...
...lowered, its tissues need less blood, and the brain can survive without damage for twice the normal time. Bailey wondered whether by chilling the patient (hypothermia) he could reduce the body's blood requirement to a level where some sort of pump could handle it. Then the bold idea struck him: Why not try hypothermia alone if he needed only six or eight minutes inside the heart...
...drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such big, bold, efficient lawmen...