Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were exploiting their brand-new Sputnik to achieve their old Middle Eastern objectives. "People of the whole world are pointing to the satellite," crowed Nikita. "They are saying that the U.S. has been beaten...
...riots were only the outward expression of an intellectual ferment which has seethed through Poland ever since Gomulka declared his provisional independence from Moscow. Its unquestioned leader is a gawky, 36-year-old political philosopher whose devastating attacks on the Russians' brand of Communism have already made him a hero to Poland's students. "Leszek Kolakowski," said one ardent young Communist last week, "is much more important for Polish intellectual development than Khrushchev's speech...
...nation's third-biggest appliancemaker, is already working in that direction. Two years ago the company polled 10,000 U.S. housewives to find out what was important to them. The No. 1 item: service-63% of those who were satisfied with service said they would buy the same brand again; only 39% who were dissatisfied were willing to try again. Today product service is a separate division at Westinghouse, with responsibility for every appliance from hand irons to refrigerators. It not only oversees repairs, but also tries to keep breakdowns from happening. Service-division experts...
...Braves 15 years ago and was scornfully unimpressed by Spahn's talents. Now the veteran pitcher has a great deal more to show his former manager. He still has his old speedball when he needs it, but he backs it up with a variety of curves and a brand-new screwball that he calls a sinker. More important, he is still improving the impressive control that made him the first of this season's 20-game winners and made him one of the six baseball pitchers to win 20 games eight times or more. The pitches he throws...
...welled up outside the South. While the overwhelming majority of U.S. editors agreed that Orval Faubus left Eisenhower no choice but to use force to preserve the integrity of the nation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), several influential dailies outside the South looked at Eisenhower's motives with a new brand of cynicism that lacked even the compulsion of Southern war wounds. Indiana's biggest paper, Eugene C. Pulliam's right-wing Indianapolis Star, accused the President of "a deliberate effort to placate the Negro vote." The ordinarily all-for-Ike Los Angeles Times took the opportunity to indict...