Word: jibes
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...French are beset by Communist sabotage, and a black market raised to the status of a national institution. How hard it would be to make these economies jibe is shown by France's wine industry, which traditionally depended on exporting its luxury products to Britain. Austeritarian Britain can no longer afford them. Some Britons coldly suggest that the French would do better to pull up some of their vines and plant potatoes instead...
...easygoing citizens of La Paz (pop. 350,000), time has never been of the essence. Like Latinos everywhere, they are determinedly late for dinners and parties, but they also have their own private jibe at punctuality: in all of thin-aired La Paz there is no dependable timepiece. The city (almost due south of Bar Harbor, Me.) has only two public clocks: one, on the Banco Mercantil, seldom runs; the other, on the Congress Building, keeps time erratically because it has been shot up so often in Bolivia's revolutions. Radio programs often begin & end according to the announcer...
...communicating the list of new government jobs which, for the most part, jibe with courses of concentration in the College, the Office called attention to the fact that the deadline for filing an application card with the Washington Commission is November 4. The card is necessary for permission to take the Civil Service examination...
...Senator claimed, as part of his generous first-coat of red, that Lilienthal made no safeguards against foreign abuse of atomic power in the Acheson-Atomic Energy report, which Lilienthal helped to prepare. This claim does not jibe with the facts; Mr. Lilienthal subscribed to the gradual-surrender-of-secrets feature of the report which emphasized the need for security at each stage of expanding international control. Just as closely related to fact is "Mr. Lilienthal is one of those typical power-hungry bureaucrats who in recent years . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes...
...Paul newspaper man, friend of Harold Stassen, and an ardent internationalist, Joe Ball has been called a liberal. In 1944 he crossed party lines to support Franklin Roosevelt against Tom Dewey. But since then, organized labor has soured on him. Ball's belief in the individual does not jibe with labor's belief in the union. He has made it clear that he thinks organized labor has gained too much power...