Word: keys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having given up the idea of "mass conversion," the Fabians aimed at limited objectives and "converting key people," Mrs. Cole continued. Half the British cabinet are now members of the Society...
After the big bills, with only the smallest of the Administration's pay bills left to pick on, the Senate began worrying about economy all over again. For two days it haggled over the Administration's proposal for boosting the salaries of some 250 key U.S. officials. Harry Truman sent an urgent letter to Vice President Alben Barkley to prod the Senate. The reason the proposed increases seemed so large, he argued, was that they had been so long in coming. Wrote the President...
...French are doing well in both respects. Last year, the Communists controlled virtually the entire country except the major cities. Since then they have lost the key rural areas, including the Red River delta and Mekong River delta, where 90% of IndoChina's rice is grown. In a land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost...
...internal "maladjustments" and its troubles with the public, Bernays' high-powered firm had done a six-week survey. There were interviews in all branches of the theater; 400 "personal depth" interviews in upper and middle income groups in nine selected cities; 5,000 mailed questionnaires to key individuals in 27 cities...
...most." But Housemaid Edie, who builds their furtive little affair into a full-blown storm of love and wedding bells (in Britain), is an even more subtle and profound creation, warm as toast towards her Charley but cold and calculating as a stockbroker in getting him under the lock & key of matrimony. Cobwebs over Eire. Two such masterly characters deserve a masterly stage-set, and Author Green supplies it. Hollywood could make of Loving a movie almost as stunning as the novel, simply by faithfully following Green's sharp, quick series of glittering scenic plays and his natural, jumping...