Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...identifying the Treasury Department's onetime Director of Monetary Research Harry Dexter White as a Soviet agent, and strongly implying that Harry Truman was disloyal. Brownell now says: "I felt the matter was so serious that it had to be brought to public attention in fast and dramatic fashion." But he was forced to eat his unjust words about Truman, and a serious, legitimate case of security breakdown was clouded by unnecessary brawling of the kind Brownell had urged others to avoid...
Friendly Association. Then in straightforward Aussie fashion he laid it on the board: "We have been at war with each other, and feelings in Australia were strong and bitter. But we participated in negotiations for peace without any idea of penalties or reparations. I say this merely to establish it in your minds. In spite of events ten years ago, we have not approached Japan in a spirit of hatred or unpleasantness. Friendly association is our watchword...
Asked by Japanese reporters if friendly association meant that Australia was preparing to ease the sentences of 14 Japanese war criminals, Menzies said genially but uninformatively: "The whole matter is being approached in a most liberal fashion." In the glum pause that followed, Menzies raised his comedian's shaggy eyebrows: "This is a remarkable silence!" A Japanese reporter asked: "Has Australian public opinion reached the point where you may welcome Orientals as temporary or permanent residents?" Said Menzies in cheerful reply: "No; speaking in the broad, there's no such indication...
Unseen Dust. The hot cell-the shielded space-was closed after a fashion, but no one seemed to realize that hotly radioactive dust was being carried by air currents over the top of its six-foot walls. Unseen, unfelt and unsuspected, it moved around the building, getting into clothes and shoes. An attempt at cleanup was made, but the spill was not reported...
...rather close contest. Seven matches went to three sets, and all of them were won by Princeton. As Jack Barnaby puts it, "We were expecting to beat Princeton pretty handily, but actually if we were to beat them it would have had to have been in the gruelling Presbyterian fashion...