Word: howlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desire to be liked. Thus, self-conscious Canadians belittle and criticize the U.S. in order to build up their own national ego. And Americans, expecting friendship, are hypersensitive to the needling. Only mutual understanding, MacLennan believes, will resolve the problem: "The Canadian and American national neuroses will continue to howl at one another like a pair of coyotes in the dark until we turn a spotlight on them, examine them, and let them fade into forgotten nightmares...
...their lucrative Stateside business. CAB has decided not to renew temporary permits for routes flown by Pacific Northern and Alaska Airlines between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest (43,013 passengers in 1953), letting Pan American and Northwest Airlines fly the routes alone. But the move has brought such a howl that CAB may be forced to reconsider...
...will move next week to a more commodious theater. Berliners, wearily familiar with occupation armies, were delighted with an American play that deliberately spoofed the U.S. Army's postwar occupation of Okinawa (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953). When Sakini, the raffish Okinawan, declares that "democracy is exhausting," German audiences howl. The boffo line for Berliners comes in the scene where Colonel Purdy announces his determination to bring democracy to the islanders if he has to "shoot every last one of them." Any nation that could kid its own foibles was, to Berliners, something new and pleasant...
Batlle Berres' opponents, especially the wool and cattle barons of the interior, howl that this is Red socialism. But since under Batllismo Uruguay has Latin America's highest standard of living and no income tax, Uruguayans invariably vote for it. As for Communism, Batlle Berres opposes it with a technique that Uruguayans call "killing it with liberty." The Red vote dropped from 32,000 in 1946 to 17,000 in this month's election...
...couple of voices cried "shame," but Churchill insisted: "I am giving you the story quite straightly and bluntly." In Manhattan, reporters pounced on Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who looked astonished but admitted: "It's true, it's true." Laborites set up a howl of indignation. Bevanite Barbara Castle, though she had signed the presentation book, announced that she had canceled her contribution to Churchill's birth day fund, since "I do not desire to pay tribute to a man who now reveals he was prepared to ... create a pact with Nazi forces more infamous...