Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britons hold public service and political office in higher esteem than people anywhere else in the world. This is a sharp contrast with the U.S., where Congressmen in the mass are still looked upon as rather comical blowhards, and civil servants as inferior drones who could not make a dime in competitive business life...
Promptly, the Friedlands dumped all their small stores, plowed every dime into supers. In five years, they owned 22; sales soared to $13.5 million. Main secret of the Friedlands' success is quick service to move goods fast. All new Food Fairs have low counters so that the housewife can quickly spot whatever she wants and move on. The Friedlands were fast to adopt prepackaged meat; their new stores have a conveyor-belt system for groceries at the checkout counter, and teams of five to count and package the orders. The Friedlands are moving just as fast as the customers...
...fiscal year last week, the 82nd Congress had not passed a single regular appropriation. There had been fundless days before, when one or another department failed to get its moneys voted. This time Congress had failed to provide a single dime for any part of the U.S. Government after July 1. In a last-minute spasm-after jamming through the controls extension (see above)-with characteristic confusion, wild errors and panicky haste, Congress jammed through a 31-day authorization to continue spending. It will be three weeks before the $8.5 billion foreign military aid bill even gets...
...fateful day in a junior-year English class, the professor, William Lucius Graves, read aloud a student theme entitled, My Literary Enthusiasms, in which the dime novels of the day were wittily treated. Before he had a chance to announce the writer's name, the bell rang, and the students streamed out. Thurber found himself walking alongside Elliott Nugent, who was everything on the campus that Thurber was not-athlete, social success, best actor in the dramatic club, class president, idol of the coeds...
...story turns on the 22-year-old unsolved murder of a famed movie director of the silent era.* Independent Producer Richard Conte determines to make a picture about the crime and, by the dime-novel logic that governs The Hollywood Story, decides he must solve it first. He rakes up old clues, gets shot at for his pains, goes staunchly on through a gallery of suspects: his business partner (Fred Clark), a onetime matinee idol (Paul Cavanaugh), a silent movie queen's daughter Julia Adams), a veteran scripter (Henry Hull...