Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barely in office before he forwarded a 30-bill liberal plan of action to California's newly Democratic legislature, pointedly marked the bills "by request of Governor Brown." Passed to date: Brown's recommendations for a fair employment practices bill, curbs on installment buying to stop credit rackets, a measure ending California's odd cross-filing primary system...
...American nations to show a 1958 favorable balance of trade in spite of tumbling prices of coffee, source of more than 80% of Colombia's export income. Lleras cut the $500 million commercial debt left by Rojas to $150 million. He also held down government spending and tightened credit. Cost of living, which jumped 23% in 1957, climbed only...
...from even dimmer recesses in the Cambridge collective unconscious ("other-directed," "sibling rivalry," "residual bitterness," "bubble gum," etc.). In Mr. A.'s review many words are enclosed by quotation marks, but few of these words may be found enclosed within the covers of our magazine. By giving us credit for sentences which pour out of his own head or somewhere, Mr. A. blights Gadfly with a tone not there...
...Carolina met its toughest test after the Supreme Court's 1954 decision. But guided by able leadership, it did not panic. Instead it plotted minimum but legal compliance, went on to more important business-and in so doing soon put the crisis in reasonable perspective. Part of the credit was due to Governor Hodges and his sharp eye for business; part of it was due to the special heritage of the state that produced both Hodges and the kind of climate that he could operate...
This is obviously the kind of fertile fictional earth just right for the tall corn. To Author Lacour's credit, he does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession...