Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision made, the members of the so-called civil rights "Leadership Conference" rounded up other civil rights organizations, issued a bombastic statement backing the weak Senate bill ("The millions of victims of discrimination and intolerance have every right to demand completed legislative action this year...
...themselves deserting Paris for the statutory three-week summer vacation (most factories and more than half the shops of Paris are closed in August, as all France takes off at once). Foreigners apparently had heard much of France's inflated prices, which made even more intolerable the reiterated demand for tips on the part of servitors whose only service consisted of sitting sullenly by a lavatory door or pointing out a seat in a theater to a man who had already paid...
Empty Seats. At week's end the team of Nick and Mick broke up. Mikoyan, the trade specialist, journeyed up to the Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
...wealthy strip of Eastern Seaboard where Lanin usually roams, the demand for his services is fiercely competitive. He has solid bookings as far ahead as 1963, verbal engagements up to 1968. The mammas book him for their infant daughters' debuts in the same way that the papas book their infant sons for Yale; Lanin rechecks each booking a year or two before the scheduled date just in case "they haven't been clipping their coupons...
...many businessmen, worried about soft spots in the economy, the nation's bankers last week gave solid reassurance of the continued strength of the boom. The demand for credit for expansion of all kinds is still so great-and money so tight-that Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. boosted its prime rate for loans from 4% to 4½%. Banks around the country soon followed. Two days later the Federal Reserve Board approved a boost in the discount rate by four of its twelve district banks from 3% to 3½%. The new Fed rates, highest since...