Word: never
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover victory in his first major fight with the Congress was not easily won. To get what he wanted?a farm bill without a federal subsidy?he had to sacrifice his tenet that a President should never interfere with Congress, should never dictate to it on legislation. When, earlier in the week, the Senate had ignored his advice and voted to uphold its export debenture plan, the President very definitely interfered, very distinctly dictated...
...have never been a diplomat. I have many faults, but somehow, I am sure you will put up with them, as have my own people...
There are certain phases of every person's life which become disconnected, and for the college graduate the four years spent in getting an education represent the most striking example of this. After graduation a class inevitably breaks up and many close friendships die never to be renewed. And yet in later years when the Yard is merely a memory and the football teams is the only thing he hears about the graduate still retains a sincere feeling of appreciation to the institution that guided his steps for four years...
...Fleischmann company has more than 300,000 bakers and grocers who receive their yeast from the Fleischmann company. Bakers are visited daily; grocers triweekly. A transportation subsidiary and 900 agencies see to it that contacts are never broken. In March 1918, a blizzard struck Chicago, kept the 41 Fleischmann delivery trucks in their garages. Thereupon the Fleischmann Chicago personnel equipped itself with yeast-packed satchels, made a door-to-door journey to Fleischmann customers...
...Greene never uses an alarm-clock. Instead she trains her companion to whisper, "I think perhaps you would like to waken now and get up." Once awake, Old Mrs. Greene feels too old, too weary, to arrange her own little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their...