Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congratulations to the author of that fashion note "Curving the Curple" on his near creation of a literary gem on a subject that under prosaic treatment would have been something worse than gauche...
...Guarantee. "This transaction," said he, "has obvious benefits for the U.S." Taking note of the fact that U.S. allies in recent weeks have sold between 10 million and 15 million tons of wheat and flour to the Communist bloc, he added: "It would be foolish to halt the sale of our wheat when other countries can buy wheat from us today and then sell it as flour to the Communists." To turn the deal down, added Kennedy later, would only convince the Kremlin "that we are either too hostile or too timid to take any further steps toward peace, that...
Neutralist Ceylon's Ambassador Sir Senerat Gunewardene, neglecting to note that his own government has nationalized Roman Catholic schools and is forcing out Christian missionaries, charged Catholic President Diem with depriving the Buddhists of "life, liberty and security...
Final Roost. The cambiali look like ordinary U.S. bank checks-but the resemblance ends there. In Italy's consumer boom, the buyer of a refrigerator or bedroom set signs a promissory note for each monthly installment. He thus may sign as many as 48 cambiali for one TV set or refrigerator. The merchant who sells him the goods uses the cambiali to pay his own bills, just as if they were currency, and his supplier or landlord in turn uses them to pay off his debts. The notes may pass through 20 or more hands before they finally roost...
...young man of genius. It was his genius to vibrate like a tuning fork to the music of his time. When the '20s died on Black Thursday of 1929 and the times went bad, Fitzgerald went sour with them. Although he wrote better, he was on the wrong note; having been monstrously overrewarded for his early tripe, he was cruelly undervalued when-after heroic effort-he made a fine novelist of himself...