Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Policymaker Bob Taft, with his eye on pledges of economy, wanted to cut about $200 million out of the bill. Candidate Taft, admitting that his stand was "unwise politically," pleaded for Congress to go slow on public spending at a time when foreign aid and military commitments were making heavy demands on the Treasury and the nation's economy. One Democrat-Virginia's Harry Byrd-joined him, warned of deficits and of "an increase in taxes which will shake the private-enterprise system to its very foundations." Kansas' Republican Clyde Reed called the bill "an outrageous...
...300th meeting of the Security Council last week may well have stirred envy in the narrow breast of "Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough...
...Abner, Fleegle's evil eye is usually thwarted by the overpowering goodness of Mammy Yokum's counter-whammy. But in all its meetings the Security Council has not been able to find an antidote for the Russian basilisk. This week, true to his promise, Gromyko double-vetoed the motion on Czechoslovakia...
...With its eye on the booming market, General Motors decided to sell the public its 29.1% interest (1,000,061 shares) in North American Aviation, Inc. The sale, to be made soon, is in line with G.M.'s policy to get out of companies with which it has no "direct business relationship." (It recently unloaded an 18.9% common stock interest in Bendix Aviation Corp. and 344,000 shares of Greyhound Corp.) To make the separation complete, North American President James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger was moved up to replace Henry Michael Hogan, a G.M. vice president, as chairman of North...
...polled by the London Daily Mail) instead of by their fellow workers, as in Hollywood. What is it about "dear Maggie" that makes her "the British shopgirl's dream?" She is no great beauty; her nose is sharp, her lips are thin, a large mole guards her left eye. And she is no great actress; most critics agree that ordinary is the word for Maggie's histrionics. Apparently, that's what makes her popular. Said a British producer: "She is really one of them. They feel that whatever happens to her on the screen might easily happen...