Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the carrot technique; bondholders would be modestly rewarded for holding on to Government securities. Was there a hidden stick? No one could tell until the terms and details of the new issue were announced. Nor did the +¼% sign which Treasury and FRB waved as a symbol of peace represent a final settlement of the differences between them...
Titanium dioxide is found in nature in black or brown crystals known to mineralogists as "rutile." When the pure oxide, finely powdered, is fed through an oxyacetylene flame, it collects in a solid, carrot-shaped "boule." At first the boule is black, but careful heating turns it to a very faint yellow, the color of good-quality "Cape diamonds." Stones of almost any color, including blue, green and deep yellow, can be made by doctoring the oxide with small amounts of impurities...
More important, it was a policy which could not succeed without a united government behind it. By his truculence, by using the stick instead of the carrot, Harry Truman had started a wrangle, not a debate. He had put a great national policy in peril of being crippled by bickering...
...year-old Paddy Martinez is conceded to be a well-rounded man. Paddy is part Navajo and part Spanish, stands 6 ft. 1 in., weighs 195, and has an outdoorsman's grizzled face. He runs a mountain sheep camp, works as a "head hunter" (labor recruiter) for carrot growers, talks Spanish, English, Navajo and the Laguna Indian language, has 14 children "and a lot of little fellows around the hogans" and is a dead shot with a rifle. He is also canny...
...prominent Christian, Kang Nyang Ook, was a "carrot" from the start. Kang, pastor of the High Place Presbyterian Church and an old teacher of Kim II Sung's, organized the Christian People's Association, preached regularly on the evils of U.S. imperialism and the blessings of Soviet democracy. He gathered quite a following, and continued to have one even after some of the "white ones" threw a grenade into his house, killing his eldest son and two visiting pastors...