Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and White House Economic Adviser Arthur Burns have all voiced public disapproval of FRB's fifth boost in the discount rate in a year (to 3% in two districts), although President Eisenhower publicly defended the right of the independent agency to use its own judgment. General Motors' President Harlow H. Curtice went so far as to blame Detroit's sliding auto sales on FRB's credit-crimping policies. On FRB's side are such experts as J. P. Morgan Chairman Henry C. Alexander, who thinks FRB "was wrong only...
This kind of narrow pre-judgment of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes America as stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous. A portrait painted in such colors clashes harshly with the glib flatteries and broad grins of Moscow's Abbott and Costello, and also with just such Russian ploys as the armaments reduction. America becomes the conservative and unimaginative, Russia appears the innovator, the offerer, the fair-haired caretaker of the peace dove...
...Henry Minott, New England news editor of United Press, picked a list, after years of watching wire copy, of the 20 most commonly misspelled words: inoculate, weird, uncontrollable, changeable, gauge, naphtha, rehearse, accommodate, sizable, discernible, diphtheria, permissible, paraphernalia, Averell (Harriman), judgment, dietitian, preventive, embarrass, indispensable, harassment...
...voluntary participant in the Communist conspiracy and one who innocently may have had contact with it. It is altogether possible that a completely loyal American might have joined a well-concealed Communist front or even two. When he joins a considerable number indiscriminately a grave question as to his judgment arises...
...same time. At one point Missouri Republican Dewey Short leaped to his feet and shouted that the disorder was ''absolutely disgraceful. I demand quiet!" Few heard his cry. and fewer heeded it. It was soon obvious that election-year pressures were more powerful than sound legislative judgment...