Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sammy froths at the mouth when he is angry, attacks with equal greed girls on the make or spaghetti on the plate at Lindy's. Even his director hates him: "He walks as if the whole studio were a sewage system-and he has to reach the door without touching anything." But the director, and all the others around him, need Sammy more than he needs them...
...Ivar Kreuger was both idol and symbol-not, as most men then thought, a Paul Bunyan of finance, but a gross glandular case of surpassing greed. Today, only one tiny match flare from Kreuger's mighty kingdom remains on the financial pages of U.S. newspapers. In mingled hope and irony, Kreuger & Toll 5% debenture bonds, with a $1,000 face value, sell on the N.Y. Stock Exchange for about $40. Before the bond's name appears the tiny letter "q," signifying "in bankruptcy...
World Peace depends on attacking the underlying causes of war-in particular, low standards of living, threats to human liberty, greed and the love of power. In addition, Methodists everywhere should earnestly "support every attempt to secure a reduction of the crippling burden of armaments, and in particular the cessation of the development of nuclear power for purposes...
Giveaways, Grab & Greed. Clement bowled alliterative strikes on the Republicans in all alleys. He attacked Ike's haphazard conduct of foreign affairs "while Foster fiddles, fritters, frets and flits." He accused the Administration of "corruption in high places, involving an unprecedented spree of giveaways, grab and greed." He said U.S. agriculture had been "devitaminized by the G.O.P. and Bensonized by Ezra B.," and he called out to the farmer: "Come on home before it's too late. Your lands are studded with the white skulls and crossbones of broken Republican promises...
These glowing words came not from U.S. travel bureaus but from top Russian newsmen back behind the Iron Curtain after a 33-day junket through the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 31). The seven junketeers managed to needle the U.S. in their reports. They noted and disapproved a "greed for profit." ("A unique means of making a profit is shown by Jack Graham, who blew up his mother and a plane for the insurance.") They rapped U.S. TV for showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers...