Word: glib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major-league baseball was confronted with one of its worst scandals since the Black Sox series of 1919: the owner of one of the nation's most famous baseball clubs was heading for a prison cell. The culprit was a trim, glib little St. Louis lawyer turned businessman (real estate) named Fred M. Saigh, who parlayed $60,800 in borrowed cash into a $4,000,000 baseball empire...
...open!" Frenchmen who heard and understood nodded in satisfaction; maybe there would be no trouble after all. But in the vast jungle of tin-roofed hovels known locally as Bidonville (Can Town), an angry mob was forming. There the criers were beaten up before they could deliver their message. Glib agitators harangued little knots of Arabs while others began hiding stones under their burnooses. From shack after shack came the ominous scrape of crude knives being honed...
Republicans will take over control of the Government at a time when U.S. business is at its alltime peak. Before the election, some glib economists had predicted a recession by the end of next year; many businessmen, conceding that 1953's first three quarters should be fine, openly worry about the fourth quarter-and after. Some Republicans are disturbed because they feel that business has nowhere to go but down, and that an easing in the supercharged rate of business may well be ahead. But the current facts of U.S. economic life hardly indicate any sharp decline...
Papa Noris, anxious to still village gossip about both him and his daughter in order to clinch a pending election, offers to marry Tamara. In the glib space of a few pages, Tamara blossoms into a dutiful bride and Hélene into a mature young woman who sees through the illusion by which she has been enslaved...
...would take pages. TIME prefers the glib American practice...