Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return for free haircuts, shampoos and massages until 1957, Samuel Bernstein installed a $425 television set in a Brooklyn barber shop...
...reassert Christendom's spiritual claims to the city, a small procession of Christian pilgrims struggled through hail and harsh winds along the Via Dolorosa toward Calvary. In Rome, meanwhile, Pope Pius issued an encyclical appealing for Jerusalem's internationalization and demanding a guarantee of free access for Catholics to Jerusalem's holy places...
...Israelis pointed out that their constitution already guarantees free access to holy places (however, "subject to the requirements of national security, public order and decorum"). As for internationalization, that was flatly out as far as Israel was concerned. It would rather go to war again than relinquish the City of the Temple, its strongest national symbol. "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem," Israelis read grimly from the 137th Psalm, "let my right hand forget her cunning . . ." The Jews were not forgetting...
...their mailboxes one day last week, 100,000 businessmen, labor leaders, governors, novelists and professors found free samples of The Reporter, a new, slick-paper fortnightly magazine of "facts and ideas." Heralded by newspaper ads, another 50,000 copies went on sale (at 25?) on newsstands across the U.S. With no other preliminary promotion, The Reporter hoped eventually to pick up 50,000 readers who would be attracted by its basic editorial proposition: "America as a nation [is] inseparably tied to the freedom and well-being of other nations...
...acquired no facilities for arriving at judgments social or artistic and he is apparently without religion of any kind." His sister Mary is no better, nor are his parents. They, too, are adolescent, "not free men and women but base mechanicals . . . the products and patrons of mass management ... of a standardized press and radio, of slick magazines and book clubs, of an overly vocationalized education, of pressure salesmanship...