Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thrift v. Drift. Capitol Hill Democrats saw quickly that if they started a spending spree they would be opening themselves up to the charge that they had thrown the budget out of kilter. "Dishonest" and "political," cried Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver (see PEOPLE). Pennsylvania's Fair-Dealing Senator Joseph Clark accused Administration leaders of the decade's most difficult athletic feat: "hiding their heads in the sand and running away from the facts." Various other Democrats labeled the budget figures "unrealistic," "dangerous," "phony," "disingenuous," "wishful thinking" and "a bookkeeping exercise...
...life as evidenced in 1958 by recovery from recession at home (confounding a basic Marxist proposition) and by the popularity overseas of U.S. staples that ranged from glass-walled skyscrapers and management consultants and supermarkets and consumer-credit washing machines and hula hoops and Benny Goodman at the Brussels Fair to the individual dedication of thousands of Americans serving on the cold-war front lines...
...Guard's longtime leader. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, got an afternoon appointment with President Eisenhower, returned secretly for breakfast a couple of mornings later, and from the White House steps declared: "I think we are willing to give them a damned fair proposition. I don't think they can rightly ask for more than that." Bridges' proposition: the Ikemen would get the assistant minority leader's post, plus the meaningless chairmanship of the Senate Republicans' Committee on Committees...
...Fair Lady. The girl with the ten-million-dollar smile (the estimated gross by year's end), and every penny well earned...
...Fair Lady in Chicago, Music Man in SAN FRANCISCO, Two for the Seesaw in CINCINNATI, are accurate echoes of the Broadway productions (see above...