Word: branding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past two months as a patient in his favorite subject for humor: the funny farm. While these two once seemed more or less alone in their strange specialty, it is now clear that the virus has spread. Perhaps a dozen other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning up not only in nightclubs but regularly shudder onto the TV screen, and are even invading the record field; Inside Shelley Berman has been near the top of the LP bestseller list for two months, a remarkable feat for a nonmusical disk. And sociologists, both professional and amateur...
...Canada over whom you reign." Then, with a slight grin, he continued: "Because we are in this beautiful part of Canada where French is principally spoken [the Queen had delivered part of her speech in French], will you permit me a single halting sentence of my Western prairie brand of that language -Je suis tres heureux de me retrouver parmi vous au Canada" (I am very happy to be with you in Canada again...
Word sifted from the State Department that Career Diplomat Charles E. T. ("Chip") Bohlen, 54, longtime (1950-57) Russian-speaking U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and since then Ambassador to the Philippines, may soon go back to Washington, become top adviser of State's brand-new Soviet-affairs desk...
...things have been looking up for Hoad. At 24, he is seven years younger than Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
...behind. The textiles-mostly thick, heavy-textured woolen suits-a"e more impressive for their usefulness against the Russian winter than for their styles, which are clumsy attempts to copy Western designs. The Russian TV sets might have come out of U.S. living rooms (one bore the Russian brand name Admiral). The Russian cars looked like copies of small West European autos...