Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their estimates in a pouch called a bougette. When the tradition of annual forecasts of total revenues and expenditures was established in England about 200 years ago, the Chancellor's report was called a budget. Ever since then, government finance officers have been trying (sometimes with success) to hold budgets in balance. The U.S. Government, a comparative newcomer to the process, did not adopt the budget system until 1921. Since then, it has been able to strike a balance less than one-third of the time...
...community of nations and in the tremendous influence of world opinion," the President proclaimed. "We must not fall into a Communist trap, and through impetuous words or deed endanger the lives of those imprisoned airmen . . . We must support the U.N. in its efforts so long as those efforts hold out any promise of success...
...Perhaps the language of Chaucer and Churchill is better for now including k-veniences, which are hangers, coinveniences, which hold money for parking meters, kon-veen-yunt tire chains, foodtainers and keytainers, roylies, which are doilies, plast-t-cap thumbtacks, tasteas, teariffic teabags, kar-pokits, diced cream, expaditers (pads of paper), slipper-grippers, chap sticks, paper mates, superfection strawberries, dangeratings, schweppervescence . . . Ladies can do lots in culottes, and summarize in summer dresses, size 16-40. After a long day in the office, their husbands come home and slip on their leisuals...
Suppressed Demands. The sentiments were those that Party Dogmatist Secchia is known to hold; the words were probably those of his male secretary and close confidant, Aldo Seniga. The letter itself was reportedly inspired by Bruno Fortichiari, one of the founders of Italian Communism, now 62 and out of favor with Togliatti's blue-suit Communists for his long insistence on militant tactics. Several days before the conference opened, Secretary Seniga suddenly disappeared. Apparently afraid that he might turn up somewhere with a damaging story, the Communists characteristically accused him of absconding with 8,000,000 lire and some...
...spread of dissent, wide as it was, apparently was not strong enough to break Togliatti's hold. In the course of the conference, he summoned party brass into a private meeting to consider disciplinary measures against the rebels, Pietro Secchia among them. Some demanded expulsion from the party, but Togliatti talked Secchia into suppressing his demands for sterner policies in return for a promise of no reprisals against the rebels. Then, Palmiro Togliatti strutted back into public view to pretend, by sarcasm and ridicule, that such a thing as dissent had never existed. "Comic . . . ridiculous . . . grotesque," said Togliatti. "These...