Word: faze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself for tighter money by reducing the price it will pay for Government underwritten mortgages from 99% to 97% of face value. When money gets tight, as Fannie May knows, lenders turn in their mortgages to get the cash they need for other investments. But the hike did not faze the stock market, which has dropped more than once at such news. At week's end. it forged ahead to a new record high of 643 on the Dow-Jones industrial average...
Space cannot hamper nor ray gun faze his hero Buck Rogers, but last week Cartoonist Rick Yager admitted that he had surrendered to one of the lowest of earth-bound weapons: his editor's blue pencil. "Too much editing, too much criticism-I just couldn't create any more," explained Yager, whose last drawings for the National Newspaper Syndicate will be published this Sunday. Retorted the syndicate's President Robert Dille: "We're happy he quit...
This was a prospect which did not seem to faze President Soekarno who, reiterating his belief in "guided democracy," said: "It is for the purpose of purifying democracy that I'm seeking a solution." How much time the President had left in which to find a way out was open to question...
Four recent libel suits did not faze Confidential magazine (TIME. July 11) and caused no change in its up-from-the sewer journalistic formula of sex and sin. But in Washington last month, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield threw a scare into the magazine that rattled every skeleton in its closet; he barred Confidential from the mails after a "number of complaints." Post Office officials objected to among other things, a racy description of a stripteaser's gyrations and a "questionable cheesecake photograph of Hollywood Starlet Terry Moore. Hereafter each issue of Confidential must be cleared by the Post Office...
...great thing about Walter Alston is that he endures. The Bronx cheers of second-guessing fans bounce off his hide, and needling from his limber-lipped predecessor Charlie Dressen does not faze him at all. His patience is paying off: he has built a team of winners out of last year's so-so Brooklyn Dodgers...