Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Shuman's plan, dubbed Marketing Food for Freedom, U.S. agricultural products would no longer be sold for "Mickey Mouse money," as Farm Bureau staffers call the soft currencies the U.S. takes in counterpart-fund payments for its food. Instead, the Government would buy food for foreign countries, give away 20% to the neediest and poorest nations, and distribute the remainder on credit to be paid off in dollars. His program, said Shuman, would eventually eliminate money spent on Food for Peace as well as the annual $3 billion subsidy doled out to farmers...
...pretzels. In Dubuque, Iowa, Businessman John Walsh and eleven friends in five weeks rounded up enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their old records, was deluged with 3,300 in one week...
...Cannes Claude picks up Jeanne Moreau in the classic style: they both win on number 17. They have streaks of luck, lose it all, then make a killing, and buy their way into the Jet Set. He gets a tux, she a couple of evening gowns, and they check into Monte Carlo. The luxury, like the poverty, seems hard: there are the same straight lines, the same stark blacks and whites, set off by the flickers of brocade and jewelry. But the hardness is unreal because it has no effect on the people within it. Jeanne lives only...
...purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose of her cuckolded husband. When he asked how she could save enough from her house keeping money to buy mink coats, she replied airily: "It isn't easy." Her hus band bought the explanation, and so did happy Panther fans...
...there isn't. Lockwood has everything that riches can buy, but he still has the feeling that he is being denied something. It bothers him. It still bothers O'Hara-who has also made it. And that is just the trouble-both with Lockwood as a convincing character and O'Hara as a novelist. For it no longer bothers anybody else. The upwardly mobile do make it. The rich are no longer exclusive. O'Hara is fighting a battle against the Establishment that the Establishment itself has long since quit fighting...