Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinning of some welfare programs, e.g., privies on Indian reservations and aid to states for education of retarded children, is more than offset by the fattening of others. Some of these boosts are Sputnik-inspired: a 100% increase for the National Science Foundation, $75 million for a brand-new program of science scholarships and other aid to education. But some welfare increases seem unconnected with the cold war, e.g., $20 million more for "grants for construction of waste treatment facilities," an extra $37 million for "rural electrification and rural telephones...
...royal palace to cheer Sihanouk's stand. Sihanouk himself followed up his words with actions: first he summoned his ambassador home from Moscow, then warned Pnompenh's Soviet embassy and Chinese Communist trade mission to stop their propaganda activities forthwith. Apparently intending to get a brand new start all along the line, he had his father, King Norodom Sura-marit, dissolve the squabbling Assembly, and ordered new elections...
...First Look. Hanisch kept his word, though he admitted he had passed by the plant late one night after a bridge party and "damned near knocked off three cars looking the other way." Now it was opening day. With Architect Stone, Owner Hanisch rode up to his brand-new, three-acre, $3,000,000 combined office and plant in Pasadena. He saw a dazzling, 400-ft.-long, low, white-and-gold façade, faced with an airy grille of masonry, half given over to a carport spaced by hanging saucer-gardens. Black-bottomed reflecting pools reached under the cantilevered...
...fifth morning after Sputnik I changed military policy and practice for all time, a brand new U.S. Secretary of Defense, fresh from a world where Cheer is a product instead of an attitude, took over the cavernous office on Ring E, River Side, Third Floor, of the Pentagon...
...week later against powerful Minnesota, the varsity ran into a different brand of hockey and came out the worse for wear. The Gophers simply out-skated the Crimson for the first period and then let loose with a salvo of goals to win easily, 7 to 2. It was in this game that Copeland broke his wrist. He was driven into the boards by an average body check, but as he swung around to skate for the puck, his arm hit the boards and his wrist was broken...