Word: loath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frills v. Flights. Understandably. Eastern has been loath to fiddle with the Air-Shuttle formula: 16 roundtrip, no-reservation flights a day, with back up planes ready to take the overflow...
...Loath to lower the sights on his lofty domestic goals in the face of burgeoning military expenditures, the President said last week: "I don't think we can reduce the Teacher Corps. I don't think that we can postpone the Head Start projects. I don't think that we can postpone what we are doing in the cities." Nevertheless, non-defense programs are in for what an Administration aide calls a "tough year." Said he: "We will move ahead on the major social programs, but it will mean firm, steady steps ahead-no wild expansion." Health...
...built military aircraft, will be able to spread its product line, increase its earnings with such well-regarded commercial airplanes as the Douglas DC-8 and DC-9. And Douglas, with McDonnell's backing, should now be able to get loans of about $400 million that bankers were loath to make because of Douglas' shaky financial position. Badgered by delays in parts deliveries and shortages of skilled workers, Douglas in its last financial statement reported nine-month losses of $17 million on sales of $756 million. For 1966 overall, Douglas will probably be $40 million...
...years as Punch's editor in the 1950s, Malcolm Muggeridge quickened the dowdy humor magazine with pungent political satire. Circulation shot up. But when Muggeridge proposed lampooning Prince Charles's boarding school, he went too far even for Punch and was forced to quit. Nothing daunted, hardly loath and all that, he went on to ridicule the whole monarchy in a savage piece in the Saturday Evening Post. For that breach of British etiquette, he was roundly denounced, ostracized by his friends - and even banned, for a while...
...over his canvases." Indeed, he is now ranked with Cezanne as one of the major precursors of 20th century painting. The problem is that his once scorned works are now so highly prized (a rare Manet at auction a year ago brought $450,000) that museums and collectors are loath to part with what have become their most precious possessions...