Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mean and miserly concept of a mature economy that's going nowhere-in short, the advocates of guaranteed annual stagnation. I am just as impatient with the slavish and stereotyped thinking which has led some businessmen to consider 'security' a bad word, and to brand all concern for human and social progress as Communism or 'creeping socialism...
...liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit to the U.S. of $1,100,000. In the Virgin Islands the Government sold its rum distillery (Government House brand) and its famed resort hotel, Bluebeard's Castle...
...play is a brash but cowardly deserter from the Hungarian army who takes refuge in the home of his former mother-in-law. That lady, a countess and sort of philosophical fairy godmother, teaches him what he should have learned in Sunday school and provides him with a brand new backbone...
...springtime in Sheepshead Bay and the rubber plants were stretching themselves. On this perfect morning, Frank Biondo Jr. decided to pay a call on his grandmother. So he hopped into the family's brand-new, two-toned green Pontiac and started...
...their own countries, Britons, said Dryden in 1693, "have yet no English prosodia, not so much as a tolerable dictionary, or a grammar; so that our language is in a manner barbarous." The best reference book around was Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, but the Bailey brand of definition, e.g., a mouse: "an animal well known," was hardly adequate. Finally, a group of booksellers got in touch with Johnson, persuaded him to compile a dictionary within three years. "But, Sir," remonstrated a friend, "how can you do this in three years . . . ? The French Academy, which consists...