Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europe itself. The Schuman Plan was meant to be an economic counterpart of EDC's military partnership. So long as France hesitates over EDC and so long as France's suspicion of Germany is met by German resentment of France, so long will Monnet's brainchild be a sickly youngster in a household of quarreling parents...
...This great frame-up against such conventional building materials as wood and concrete is the brainchild of Demetrius Comino, a 50-year-old Greek-Australian turned Briton. Comino himself has capitalized mightily on both ingenuity and opportunity since he went to England in 1920 to study engineering. He got into the printing business, naming his company Krisson, Ltd., after the ancient Greek word for better. He soon was making it live up to the claim. While a partner ran the plant, Comino spent his time making efficiency studies and asking so many questions that employees nicknamed...
Then, with Mamie, daughter-in-law Barbara and his three grandchildren, Ike took off for Georgia and the Augusta National Golf Club. At the Augusta Club, brainchild of an old Eisenhower friend, Golf Champion Bobby Jones, the Eisenhowers had previously spent quiet family vacations. This time, too, "golf and no visitors" was the planned order...
...brainchild of Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the loose-jointed league was formed in 1945 to promote the political federation of the Middle East-and to enable the British to deal with a single Arab agency instead of with half a dozen squabbling dynasties. At that moment, Saudi-Arabia's crusty old Ibn Saud grandly proclaimed that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been...
This ambitious project was the brainchild of Fred G. Gurley, 63, Santa Fe president and a U.S.C. trustee. Boss of 65,000 employees and 13,000 miles of track, Gurley had watched his railroad prosper, but with the uneasy suspicion that it was failing in a primary duty: to help its personnel understand the free-enterprise economy in which they operate. Last spring Gurley suggested that U.S.C.'s President Fred D. Fagg Jr. organize a new course just for the Santa...