Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech to the nation on the Formosa Straits situation, President Eisenhower committed the country to the defense of Quemoy and Matsu should negotiations prove fruitless, and declared simultaneously that any such parleys could lead to no agreement "prejudicing" the position of Chiang Kai-Shek. Little else could be said in a public pronouncement, for surely the U.S. could not announce that it would yield to Red China's show of force. But no public pronouncement would have been better than one in which the President hamstrung the country between the militarism of Mao Tse-Tung and the intransigence of Chiang...
...nation's expense-account economy, nobody is anybody unless he can say "Charge it." Thus, the credit card has risen as a new symbol of status that enables one to rent a plane or boat or car, give parties in nightclubs, even go on a full-blown safari in Africa without putting down a penny. For businessmen it also provides a convenient record of all expenses to show the Internal Revenue Service. Last week the credit-card game provided businessmen with the spectacle of being wooed and fought over by a handful of companies trying to dominate the business...
Historic Reply. Marlborough, returning tired and sick from campaigning, tried to heal the breach-only to find that he, too, had had his day. Just as the Queen would have no more of Sarah, so would the war-weary nation have no more of John. "Mr. & Mrs. Freeman" were no more: they had been reduced to the status of a common duke and duchess...
...Kronenberger seems to agree with that view. "She was not at all, by happy standards, a great woman," he concludes, but she was forever so "inextinguishably herself" that she "persists even now." Moreover, she was like a great landmark in England's history-the last example of a nation that was changing "from a society of thieves to a nation of shopkeepers...
...Benson. During the afternoon, Coach Brown and his crew waited anxiously at a small house in the town two blocks from the railway station. Although comparative timings showed Harvard to be superior, Thames had an average weight of almost 13 stone. With the eyes and ears of the nation watching or listening to the BBC, anything might have happened...