Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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She committed the outrage with all the innocence in the world. One day last December she inadvertently dismissed her fourth-grade class late, found that the school bus, which normally takes three of her boys home, had already left. She offered to drive the boys home herself. But as luck...
She came up for trial in Paris in 1949, and for several days she sat in the dock with a "fixed expression of self-satisfied insolence" while witness after witness testified about the men and women she had betrayed. She chewed gum during the prosecutor's summing up, burst...
"A big company," said Romney, "becomes muscle-bound and resistant to change." As it stands, the big carmakers are so laden with heavy fixed investment, Romney said, that they cannot afford to change from big cars to small even though the public may want them. As expected, he feels it...
The Tycoon. His talents were great. In a time when a Briton's fate was largely fixed by his birth and when regulations governed life down to the smallest detail (e.g., the fine for "toying with a maid." fourpence; for breaking a glass, twelve-pence), young Wolsey's...
Creeping Socialism. Since capital "owned by about 5 percent of the households, [in the U.S. economy] produces 90 percent of the wealth," the U.S. has yet to apply the full logic of K. & A.'s citizen-capitalism. Instead of broadening the base of capitalism, they argue, the U.S. merely...