Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower was willing to swallow broad compromises for the Bricker amendment, but-and here the President leaned forward with his hands flat on his desk and spoke with utter earnestness-when you come down to this, that we have to go right back to the general system that prevailed before our Constitution was adopted, then he certainly never shall agree...
...Aiken, was passed by the 80th Congress in 1948, but has not come into operation.) In the farm belt, the president of the country's largest farm organization voiced his approval. Said Iowa Hog Farmer Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation: "The program is forward looking, with principles essentially sound for the long-range welfare of American agriculture." But the plan ran head-on into formidable opposition on Capitol Hill. Some longtime students of the farm problem, e.g., Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, argued with details of the program, but most opposition was based...
...step forward is necessary," said Peking's People's Daily, ". . . to combat this spontaneous capitalist trend of the peasants." Peking has long complained that China's peasants are slow to hate their "class enemies," i.e., the surviving landlords who still own an acre or more. Judging by the reports of travelers reaching free Hong Kong and by the hysterical tone of Communist reprimands, masses of peasants are refusing to sell their crops to the government at the fixed low rates prescribed by law. The peasants, squeezed by taxes, "voluntary patriotic contributions," and high living costs, are also...
...Confidential Clerk Eliot again presents what looks like a group of very worldly people. In the first act he encourages us to assimilate them to familiar theatrical types. Lucasta Angel is a rather spoiled and forward young woman. B. Kaghan is a flashy sort of practical joker who is amusingly disrespectful concerning Lady Elizabeth, the absent-minded dowager who dabbles in spiritualism. After the first act there was much disappointed all in the lobby about the predictable lines, tired characterizations, and old fashioned exposition. In the second act our conceptions of these characters are wrenched out of shape. In response...
...Symphony under George Szell, Stern flaked warm, buttery tones off the violin with deep tenderness. As his bow drew the music from the strings, his body seemed to play its own accompaniment. Now he rose on his toes, now he shrugged with a phrase, now he twisted and bent forward. The hall's matinee audience had not often heard Beethoven tinged with anything so remarkably like schmaltz, but it loved every minute...