Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperity, but wages and prices are rising, and industries busy meeting domestic needs have been draining off gold and dollar reserves by importing more goods than they could match in exports. "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has to be ready to step on the gas or apply the brake," explained Butler last week. "Frankly, the time has now come for a bit of the brake...
...Butler's brake was expected to consist of cuts in government spending and hikes in purchase and profits taxes. He is almost certain to be attacked as a jerky stop-and-go driver-Butler cut taxes only last spring, a month before the election which gave Sir Anthony Eden's government a five-year lease on life. At the time, Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, cried that the voters had been "bribed," and now Laborites stand ready to exhibit Butler's "autumn budget" as proof of their charge. But with perhaps four...
...Brake with Tradition. In Cheviot, Ohio, Matthew Fames was officially informed that his excuse was "first class original" after he was arraigned for passing a red light, testified: "I just bought this car, and I didn't want to step on the brakes too hard...
Pedal Pusher. In Atlanta, during a test for a driver's license, Mrs. Maude Pierce, 42, stepped on the gas instead of the brake, cracked into a utility pole, smashed into a parked car, demolished her own, sent the test supervisor to the hospital with head and hip injuries...
...Station Brake. In Marietta, Ohio, Raymond Ray won a divorce from wife Regina Bell Ray after testimony that she watched TV every night until the last station signed off, forbade him to talk to her except during the commercials...