Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dallas-Fort Worth air war: Isn't [it] all rather childish? Surely some better use could be made of the money which has been and will be wasted in a senseless rivalry...
...have a lot of problems on my mind right now. Take first base, for example. We can't keep on wasting the world's best outfielder there, and we don't have enough decent outfielders to go around anyhow. Third base is a problem, too, and the pitching staff isn't getting any younger. And how about Slaughter--will he have another great year...
...isn't the theme of The Star which lacks luster, for similar stories of a fading actress were presented sharply and adroitly in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Nor is Bette Davis disappointing: she shrieks, she bellows, she rolls her prodigious eyes. But this time the script is as aged as its heroine, and The Star, with a lack of biting satire, can only gum its way through a dim Hollywood adventure...
...23rd-floor, Gateway Center headquarters in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, Price runs his side of the race with all the quiet, unspectacular efficiency of one of his electric motors. No desk-pounder, when he wants something done, he offers it as a polite suggestion. But if it isn't done, Price is apt to remind a deputy: "When I make a suggestion. I don't mean it to be ignored." His aides have learned that he has "a whim of iron." He always uses the direct approach, either phones a man or sees him. writes no memos...
...could easily absorb another five or six billion dollars' worth of goods from abroad each year . . . When we consider . . . the great [production] edge we have on the rest of the world, it just isn't sensible-and courageous-to shake with fear at the thought that we might run into a little competition . . . One sure result of free trade with a prosperous free world is a greatly expanded market for the goods which American industry wants to sell...