Word: label
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually, both the "traitor" label and the "heretic" of the book's title are curiously oldfashioned, almost romantic terms for a highly successful survivor in a political system where the only real treason is to be slower on the draw than the other fellow, the only real heresy to be out of step with the twistings of "historical necessity." Author Maclean traces the fairly familiar but still remarkable facts of Tito's life from his birth (1892) in a tiny Croatian village to his World War I years as a prisoner in Russia and his fighting alongside...
...Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought that the U.S. was taking too complacent an attitude about Syria. The U.S. is intent on staying in the background and keeping an Arab label on any anti-Syrian moves. But it is speeding arms deliveries by air to Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia...
...crabby, Bible-spouting zealot who already owned ten small dailies from Santa Ana, Calif. to Pampa, Texas, Ohio-born Publisher Hoiles, now 78, was famed for his ultrareactionary political philosophy and his one-man campaign against a series of things he wrapped up under one label: socialism. By Hoiles's definition, socialistic institutions include: public schools, churches, public libraries, taxes, majority rule, highways, unions, and the National Association of Manufacturers...
Unprofaned. In Mount Prospect, 111., officials of the Arnar-Stone Laboratories, producing drugs, looked again, decided to change the label on a recent product to Polygesic, from Damital...
...Hampshire's Publisher William Loeb, May 20: I cannot but marvel at a country in which an editor can label (and yet not libel) the President as "a stinking hypocrite." May the day never come when it will be otherwise...