Word: fair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean that Harry Truman would hesitate to plaster the "special interests" with fresh taunts if politics dictated. It did mean that like many successful politicians, Harry Truman was capable of contradictions within himself, and of trying to run in two directions at once. It also suggested that the Fair Deal was proposing a guarded and perhaps temporary truce. Business would remain wary. But in what often seemed a friendless world, a pat on the head was better than a savagely aimed kick, on any terms...
Lounging, in gaudy, relaxing clothes, in lawn chairs under the palms with the President at their center, the "Palm Tree Cabinet" debated the best ways to press for next year's stiff Fair Deal agenda. There seemed to be plenty of time for kittenish lightheartedness in the soft warmth of the Florida Keys. One day, for example, Congressional Liaison Man Joseph Feeney was roused from a nap in the sun by a dash of cold water. Above him, grinning broadly, stood the President of the U.S., holding two empty water tumblers...
Until he let himself go in London, Federal Security Administrator Ewing, like his fellow Fair Dealers, had been doing his level best not to get the Truman plan confused in the public's mind with the British plan. The Truman plan, to cost $4.5 billion a year at the start and more later, would be financed a little differently (by a direct payroll tax) and presumably be more limited in coverage. Well, would the U.S. program pass out wigs, spectacles and false teeth, just like Britain's? a reporter wanted to know...
...Granted, the UN's decision may have been premature though correct. If nations are sincere about international government, they must now give the UN what rightfully belongs to it: guns to back its decisions. When you permit a four-year-old to play with fire, it is only fair to give him the wherewithal to put the flames...
...stirring show With the poise and precision of a well-trained ballet troupe, they pranced through their T-formation tricks. Tommy Thompson, Greasy's aging quarterback, who admits to 31 but is nearer 34, handled the ball as deftly as a shell-game operator at a county fair. An old halfback from L.S.U., 2O5-lb. Steve Van Buren, slithered past Giant tacklers for 53 yards to break his own league record for ground gained in a single season (his new mark: 1,050 yards). The Eagles cut the Giants down to size...