Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asthma, colitis, or skin disorders of psychosomatic origin. Some are alcoholics, a few are narcotic addicts, many have precipitated their admission to the hospital by attempting or threatening suicide. Broadly, such cases are classed as neuroses and personality disorders; some are psychoses. However, less importance is attached to the label than to individualized treatment for the illness...
...predatory era when Cornelius Vanderbilt could write to his associates: "Gentlemen, you have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you." Veblen took a closer look at the people Marx called the ruling class, and produced a new label: the leisure class. The businessman, to Veblen, was a saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world and run it properly. He died...
...G.O.P. convention. Nixon flew to Denver, boarded the California delegation's train, tried to persuade a bloc of Warren-pledged delegates to bolt to Eisenhower after the first ballot. Delegation Chairman Knowland, publicly for Warren, privately listing toward Robert A. Taft, was furious. He had a private label for Nixon's intervention: "fifth-columning...
...another with the air of a fullback heading for the goal line. He is not much of a rough & tumble debater, but his set speeches are well written, forcefully delivered. Because of his consistent bathe for more U.S. aid to Chiang Kaishek, his detractors have fitted him with a label: "The Senator from Formosa...
...Claude Thornhill; Trend). One of the sweetest-sounding bands ever assembled, Thornhill & Co. have been out of record-making for a while; here they are back, more sophisticated than ever, on a promising new label...