Word: czar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough, he said, for the Olympic Committee to take back the medals he had won, "but I do hold that the officials had no right to take back the bronze bust of himself that King Gustav V of Sweden gave me or the jewel-studded silver Viking ship the Czar of Russia asked me to accept. They belong to me and must be returned or I will bring a suit for damages...
...Steel grew up to match Morgan's grandiose dreams. For 26 years its czar was pious Judge Gary, a teetotaler who ran it like a Sunday school, and who, in the words of one bitter critic, "never saw a blast furnace till after he died." At his annual "Gary dinners," he set the prices for the entire industry. Later he established uniform prices by his Pittsburgh Plus and basing point systems, both now outlawed.* He also fought and licked the Government trustbusters who sought to break up the Steel Trust. He won primarily because in the growing U.S., newcomers...
...Music Czar James Petrillo announced that he was enjoying his vacation in Honolulu, and particularly the comforts of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Said he: "I slept in basements most of my life, and I don't intend to do it again if I can help...
Missouri's Clarence Cannon, House appropriations czar, greeted the request with a hoot. "Any preparation we make for fire-fighting and for hospitalization is a drop in the bucket," he said. "Our only hope ... is to altogether avoid war. The greatest asset in civil defense is that the nation be so strong from a military point of view that no nation dare attack...
Back to the Czar. Pravda's reply, twice as long as the Morrison statement and printed right alongside, is in its way as remarkable as the unprecedented gesture of publishing the Morrison text. By Soviet standards of invective, it is mild; in spots, it sounds strangely apologetic and naive...