Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frondizi decided it was time to throw away the carrot and use the stick. He won the support of the armed forces by agreeing to stop wooing Peronistas. Then, by radio, he made his "final plea" for an end to the strike, blaming "Communists" and "political groups who believe it is possible to restore the ousted dictatorship." When the plea failed, Frondizi acted. He fired Peronista-Wooer Frigerio. declared a 30-day state of siege, ordered a nationwide roundup of strike leaders. Within a few hours, 468 Peronistas and Communists were in jail...
...were on the Chinese Communist side," summed up "Anonymous Spokesman" Dulles, "I would think very hard before I went ahead on the face of this statement." He also offered the diplomatic carrot: if the Reds would renounce force, the U.S. was willing to continue efforts to negotiate a Formosan cease-fire (the subject of 54 of the 73 Geneva sessions), would consider Peking's claims, "however ill-founded as we may deem them...
...claim that the job requires only one real talent: the ability to recognize a phony. "But the one thing we always notice," says one Lawson rival, "is that people tend to change like Jekyll into Hyde the minute they win 25 bucks. They go kind of nuts with that carrot in front of 'em. They win something and boom! All the things you picked 'em for go out the window. All they're thinking about is the damned money...
...Bracken, since 1952 Viscount Bracken, 57, British publisher and industrialist, Minister of Information during World War II, retired Member of Parliament, board chairman of the Financial Times, onetime managing director of the Economist, board chairman of Union Corporation, Ltd., giant international mining concern; of throat cancer; in London. A carrot-topped Irishman who was brought up on a remote Australian sheep station, Bracken went to England at 15, began honing his invective facility and absorbing the wide sophistication that made him famous in Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor Bracken strongly...
When is a sandwich not a sandwich? Answer: when it consists of roasted breast of chicken, green salad, tomato, lettuce, a carrot slice and fried parsley-all on a piece of bread. At least that is the view of Pan American World Airways, which last week was embroiled in a heated metaphysical battle with its European competitors over the nature of Lord Montagu's invention. The International Air Transport Association has agreed that airlines may serve only sandwiches on their new cut-rate transatlantic flights v. free full meals on regular flights. Pan American, which still considers the sandwich...