Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that a consideration of these cycles will give us greater insight into the nature of our present alignment, help us to judge. more accurately the validity of current arguments, and even suggest, after a fashion, the course of our political development in the years ahead...
...entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova's Juliet, not quite girlish and a bit plumper about the waist than the American fashion in dancers...
...sure, in the thorny matter of getting a road built, it is Mister Johnson who finds the answer-but in so un-British a fashion as to get sacked. Then, in a moment of drunken confusion, he inadvertently kills a storekeeper he is trying to rob, and mercy can find no legal way to season justice...
...workers listen to me, they say: 'Poujade is not so bad; he is not against us at all. He is against our enemies, the big trusts.' " The big trusts themselves are interested. Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac, biggest of French businessmen, owner of race horses and the fashion house of Dior, sent an emissary to sound out this new political phenomenon. "He tried to pull the worms out of my nose," was Poujade's characteristically inelegant reaction...
...most telling sign of Diem's increasing strength was the Communist failure to make a threatened show of force. Despite scattered terrorism (an election official in Mo Cay was murdered by Viet Minh agents), the election was carried out in orderly fashion. As their first official act, the new Assemblymen repudiated the Geneva agreement (signed by France but not by the Vietnamese), which provides for nationwide elections next June. South Viet Nam rightly argues that no free election could possibly be allowed in the more populous Communist north, and a rigged one would give the Communists a chance...