Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gambling tax. So friendly. No television cameras. No lawyers. No subpoenas. It just wanted bookies to I) fill out form 11-C, giving their real names, their addresses and the names of their partners and employees, 2) buy a $50 federal tax stamp which, in effect, would label them as professional gamblers, and 3) turn over 10% of their gross business to the Government...
...religious conflict within the simple waitress who loved him. Except for a single refinement of the book's final irony, the movie treats its characters wholly on the surface. The result looks enough like a second-rate U.S. crime melodrama to make the new title seem an accurate label. Brighton Rock loses its soul when young Scarface becomes just another descendant of Chicago's Scarface...
...vote). Political meetings held in school classrooms and in between shifts at cotton mills and shipyards were packed with grave, attentive audiences, pressing and persistent in their questioning, and sometimes skillful in heckling. Tories talked mostly about the cost of living, anxious to dodge the war party label that Labor tried to fasten on them. Tom Dewey's old slogan, "It's Time for a Change," turned up on Tory placards. Clement Attlee, making a virtue of his plainness, and of the Socialist largess, liked to look out over an audience that was plainly but warmly dressed...
Author Buckley believes that "the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world . . . [and] that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level." Under the "protective label of 'academic freedom,' " says he, Yale has become "one of the most extraordinary incongruities of our time: the institution that derives its moral and financial support from Christian individualists and then addresses itself to the task of persuading the sons of these supporters to be atheistic socialists...
...party" label was a good (though unfair) line for Labor-and the Tories knew it. The Tories, who had been hammering away at Labor's timid foreign policy, quickly switched to "bread and butter politics." They attacked high prices, small rations of butter and meat and Labor's failure to build enough houses to replace those destroyed in World War II. New Tory posters appeared showing an infant grumbling, "The way things are, I shall be grown up before I get my house...