Word: howlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected, the word brought an outraged howl from United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, who only a fortnight ago demanded an "anti-inflation" cut of $100 on 1958 cars (TIME, Sept. 2). Thunderbird Reuther, announcing an appeal to President Eisenhower "to exert his great persuasive charm" on the "irresponsibility" of the automakers: "You can increase wages and cut prices and make money if production is increased...
...atmosphere of Hyde Park such things are seldom said of a reigning monarch. Appearing last week in a respectable if small journal of opinion, the National and English Review, under the byline of its young editor Lord Altrincham, a peer of the realm and a Tory, they evoked a howl of indignant response all over the nation. "Lord Altrincham's attack is vulgar," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express. "Being muddleheaded, it is destructive." "Disgraceful," complained the League of Empire Loyalists. "Altrincham ought to be shot," groused the Duke of Argyll...
Clocker Spanielle, the CRIMSON'S sporting prognosticator, roused himself from his winter torpor and let out an anguished howl. An acute case of spring fever had caused him to miss the opening of the baseball season...
...Secretary Wilber Brucker invited a group of Congressmen to witness at Army expense a military demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Brucker also passed the word that the affair would be held the same weekend as the nearby Kentucky Derby. Result: Brucker hastily canceled the invitation after a budget-cutting howl that could be heard all the way to Churchill Downs...
...afraid of alienating readers or advertisers by the straightforward handling of news or the vigorous expression of editorial opinion when religious viewpoints impinge upon public affairs is seeing things under the bed . . . The bulk of newspaper readers are essentially reasonable people over the long run. They'll howl plenty when you tread on their pet opinions - especially religious opinions. But if they see that you don't hesitate to tangle with other groups as well as with theirs, they won't do any thing more than howl...