Word: free
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the right to enjoy all to ourselves the steady annual increase of 6% in our national product," West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard proposed that his government review its system of foreign credits and "untie" them so that in the future underdeveloped countries would be free to use German credits for the purchase of non-German products. The U.S. could only welcome the offer, while noting wryly that burgeoning West Germany could now contemplate a variety of economic liberalism that the U.S. itself had felt obliged to restrict...
...were the raids discovered. Unhappily, Scotland Yardmen, after a week of fruitless investigation, admitted they could only hope for a "snout" -someone who might be tempted into talking by an insurance company reward of $28,000. They admitted, too, to a touch of regret over the new, vice-free state of London's streets. "Those girls always helped us," confided one Yardman. "They were our eyes and ears when we weren't around. This haul couldn't have been made in the bad old days...
...Baghdad itself, daily bulletins continued to insist that Kassem was recovering nicely from his wounds, would soon leave the hospital. On that happy day, Iraqi citizens were promised free admission to movie theaters, half fare on trains, and free circumcision for their newborn sons. But like any other Arab strongman, Kassem derives his power less from the people than from the army. At week's end, from his hospital bed, "the sole leader'' made a public declaration of confidence in the loyalty of his troops: "I can assure you there is not in the whole...
...money," largely used to finance imports, and responsible for keeping the Canadian dollar at a high $1.05½ in U.S. currency). Both Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Opposition Leader Lester Pearson, hopeful of more sales to Europe, urge Canada to take the lead in the promotion of a free-trade area among NATO nations...
...again, with a show in London's Zwemmer Gallery of 28 new oils, turned out at a stupendous clip in the last seven months. The scene has changed from the gloomy digs he used to occupy with his wife and two children in a house he got rent-free from his in-laws. Recently elected an associate of the august Royal Academy, and sporting a new beard, Bratby has come up in the world. Hit, new background is his own rambling, Victorian house, with cracked swimming pool, in London's Blackheath district. But the exuberant pictures...