Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obvious that there is one central purpose of the forthcoming Russian visit: not necessarily to woo Tito into the Moscow camp--there is little chance of that--but to draw one more state from the Western defense system into a great neutral chain the length of Central Europe. The aspect of this latest venture which is not so obvious is its great departure from previous Soviet policy. In the present case, the move is not primarily military, as, say, was the establishment of the Berlin blockade or the arming of the satellite nations. Moscow now is holding out to Tito...
...could have inspired such writing as Buechler's! For example: "But time was when a grown man, maybe he was middle-aged already, and standing square on his own two feet in his overcoat and suit and vest, malory fedora, the best necktic he had left and a watch chain if he'd held on to it, was a grateful man to have it, and a college graduate." Orwell would have laughed and said, "Come off it, Buechler," and as usual he would have been right...
...leader chortled: "We can keep the ones who are working so busy it won't be easy for them to make money for Bell Telephone." Then the union mimeographed a twelve-page booklet, labeled "Operation Zilch," listing 770 phone numbers to call. The plan; to refer calls "in chain fashion, from one number to another...
Spry little Archbishop Martínez, 73, is given a major share of credit for this improvement in the church's fortunes. Much in demand at Mexico City cocktail parties, where he handles his quota of martinis, the chain-smoking Archbishop might long since have been a Cardinal in a land less nervous about princely trappings. He still watches his step. When the Archbishop drops in on President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (about once a month), secrecy surrounds the meetings, which are politely called "accidental" when they have to be called anything...
...scores of other nooks and crannies of Government, less dramatic ways have been found to eliminate competition with private business. The Defense Department has shut down 24 scrap-metal operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...