Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agricouture. The Agriculture Department, always ready to help the cotton farmer, showed newsmen some bright print dresses made from cotton fertilizer bags. Dresses from flour bags are old stuff, but the department had worked for months to invent a dye that would withstand the chemical effects of the fertilizer. Purpose: to make cotton fertilizer bags competitive with cheaper paper ones...
Rebel knows enough music to play the piano and sing passably, but she has had to learn or invent a whole new vocabulary while spinning records for hep soldiers. Now a saxophone is always a "goldenrod," playing a trumpet is "scraping the ceiling," drums are "kettles" and violins are "angel music." When not talking about hot & sweet records, Rebel tries to strike a fine balance between sentiment and bathos, because "our purpose isn't to make them lonesome, it's to make them happy...
...books Nehru revises Voltaire's famous sarcasm (if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him): if God did exist, it would be necessary not to worship...
Tell the People. The G.O.P.'s best speechmakers fanned out across the nation. Bob Taft talked of the new "appeasement." Said he: "It would be hard to deliberately invent a more disastrous series of policy moves than this Administration has adopted during the past 18 months." Dirksen saw MacArthur's firing as a victory for Great Britain, and the State Department as "a branch of Downing Street." Far out in right field, Joe McCarthy announced in Milwaukee that the recall was "a Communist victory won with the aid of bourbon and Benedictine." Of Harry Truman he said...
...gambler, and "gambling, like bridge, is always an example of intelligence unfocused." As a detective he challenged the world to invent codes he could not decipher...