Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably, too, the Administration was dead set against another round of wage increases (see BUSINESS), but it just couldn't bring itself to say so. In trying to write around this painful subject, the President's economic advisers composed some masterful doubletalk. Sample: At the present time both employers and workers should strive to work out adjustments which will help to stimulate activity, bearing in mind the need both for holding business costs down and for maintaining consumer purchasing power at high levels...
...same increases in taxes and government controls. But of much greater significance is the depressing effect upon the spirit of the people. Britons want security, but we do not think they have found it . . . To the extent that any man accepts the doctrine that the State alone can bring him security and happiness, he will lose faith in himself...
...situation full of irony. In 1939, when Inventor Fairchild wanted to float $800,000 worth of financing for his company, bankers insisted that he bring in a practical operating man to help run the plant. A year later, Fairchild himself picked Carl Ward, then general manager of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Corp., brought him in as president and kicked himself upstairs as chairman...
...words. Exclaimed one: "If the chief's wife sets me a task, I would do it. But if a white woman says, 'Chop wood!', I would answer, 'How much?' " Another said: "Nobody can cast fire among the people he loves. If you bring this woman, the tribe will scatter and [pointing to a cattle stockade] you will be chief of these poles...
Outraged, the secretaries drew up their own advice for bosses (sample: "Remember your secretary didn't hand you that 15th Scotch & soda the night before. Don't bring your hangover into the office. Maybe she had a bad night, too."). Snapped Delegate Augusta Hirst: "That compatible business applies to employers more than secretaries. The only syllable they recognize in the word is the second...