Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just say, "Look, when I need you I'll need you in a hurry and if you're not there it'll sure mess things up." (Appeal to its logic.) To the toast you say, "Please don't burn because you're all the bread I have and I'm hungry." (That has sort of the same effect as "You're the only man in the world for me.") To the lawn, "Drink this delicious water and get green so you'll be prettier than the others." (Things love competition...
...barbecued lamb shoulder or shoulder chops are delicious, but no, you would rather pay from 20 to 30? a pound more for a leg or loin chops. You imagine bone weighs much more than it does . . . The fat that your children need for normal healthy growth is going in the tallow basket for 8? a pound and you are paying for it with higher prices...
...objective was to make labor's influence felt in the Democratic Party. But the secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers as Beanie Baldwin, a onetime Wallace aide in the Agriculture Department. The Abts and Baldwins formed a cabal of sympathetic minds with a common goal...
...What is the need for a council of this kind?" asked Anthony Eden. "How can any industrial country give us instructions on how to conduct our business?" Communist Willie Gallacher backed Eden, shouting "A sellout!" Cripps's own Socialist supporters asked if the nationalization of iron and steel would be delayed if U.S. private enterprise was called in as adviser. The fears and frustrations of a dogged, weary nation came tumbling out. Was this council an economic instrument whereby America could keep a hold on Britain through EGA? Would it cut British exports? Would it give Americans a competitive...
...Harold Stassen will be the youngest president in Penn's 208 years. Like Columbia's Eisenhower, he was hired for his personality and his proven administrative ability by trustees who regard big universities as corporations which need executives, not educators, to run them. He will have charge of a faculty of 1,862, a student body of 18,600, and responsibility for raising $32 million for new buildings. Stassen's predecessor, George William McClelland, had resigned the presidency because of ill health, but would still be around as chairman of the university...