Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flowery courtesies bandied over the luncheon table at the Hotel Continental, Arévalo hailed Mexico's 1938 expropriation of foreign oil companies as a "continental guide" for the assertion of national sovereignty. To some Mexicans Arévalo's brave words may have sounded like mention of rope in the house of the hanged; Mexico today is pondering how to attract foreign capital to help reorganize her hopelessly inefficient oil industry. But Arevalo had a purpose. He was talking at the United Fruit Co., whose north coast plantations had been paralyzed for four weeks by the largest...
...Scott (with its "impressive assortment of tubes, wires and gadgets on a chromium-plated base"), Capehart (which "holds 20 discs and turns them over automatically") and the Meissner ("offers high fidelity. . . . Except for its cabinets, which are elegant, it claims no special features"). FORTUNE did not mention the newly imported London phonograph, which has the same record changer (Garrard) as the Fisher and lightweight pickup, but costs much more ($1,495 and $2,500) than the Fisher...
...spite of suddenly reverent expressions at mention of the word "Stalin," the skilled actors in this picture make the generals look like nice, fallible human beings. U.S. audiences will be particularly interested in ' the film's frequent tart, cynically distrustful references to a second front not yet launched by Russia's Western allies...
...Mention of a "third world war" flared up in the social, humanitarian and cultural affairs committee when Leo Mattes, of Yugoslavia, protested bitterly against a committee vote. Mattes had asked that the proposed international refugee organization in resetting refugees consider the wishes of neighboring countries as well as the country of reception...
...useful tricks of their tricky trade, Broadway columnists slip the names of saloonkeepers and cafe owners into their paragraphs. Last week in Boston, newsmen noticed that the name of Saloonkeeper Toots Shor had been mentioned by five syndicated columnists on one day. They hastily formed the Society for the Prevention of the Mention of the Name of Toots Shor. First resolve: to blue-pencil the name for six months...