Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME correspondents in 33 cities. Sputnik, the Middle East and other events had, as a Chicago lawyer remarked, "punctured the psychological Maginot line." Said Jay Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.: "We've been like a farm boy gawking along the midway of a county fair. Now we've got to get back to work pitching hay." Florida's Congressman Dante Fascell reported attending a club meeting in Miami: "After it was over, a bunch of the boys gathered around me and spent a couple of hours asking me questions about what I knew...
...nonpayment of workers' health-insurance premiums−or any taxes, for that matter." Though the Iranian government has since moved to prevent the recurrence of such abuses, Ebtehaj conceded wistfully that underdeveloped lands need not only capital and technical know-how but the fair play traditions embodied in "your Common...
...question in his introduction to Three Hundred Years of American Painting. "We have produced a school of painting," he asserts, "which in the past hundred years has been second only to France; today it is challenging even that country for leadership." This season's magnificent American exhibitions bid fair to make 1957 a turning point in the nation's appreciation of that heritage...
...FAIR-TRADE LAWS "are dead," says Discounter Stephen Masters, president of Masters Inc. (1956 sales: $45 million), which just won important legal battle. Supreme Court upheld lower-court decision that Masters' mail-order house in Washington, D.C., which has no fixed-price law, can sell goods below fair-trade prices in New York State, which does have such a law. Discounters can now ship cut-rate products by mail...
...Dartmouth invaders finally capitulated, and as the band re-formed to play "Fair Harvard," about fifteen men of the Big Green salaamed towards the Crimson stands as a sign of surrender. Despite dented instruments and a tuba broken in half, the band blared fourth with its vigor undiminished...