Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself, such a proposal is far short of what Konrad Adenauer describes as an "undeclinable offer." But in the bazaar haggling of the cold war, it might be a first price to indicate a willingness to bargain. The direction that such bargaining would take is already fairly clear. In recent weeks both Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka have emphasized that the only way Germany can be reunified is as a "confederation...
...plus $63 a year on the unpaid balance, stand to turn a handsome profit if the price of gold should rise. In effect, they bet that the U.S. Treasury, which has been able to corner more than half of the free world's gold supply with its standing offer of $35 an ounce, will not peg the world price of gold indefinitely at the level...
Professedly unaware that his proposition was out of place, Italian Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has occasionally fitted the well-padded form of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, offered President Eisenhower a vicuna coat (free, no strings), later decided, after he was told about Bostonian Bernard Goldfine, that the offer was still good. "It is not insulting in Italy to present a vicuna coat," explained Litrico. "In Italy it is a good material...
...dozen more, notably Jackson Pollock (see above), U.S. abstract expression might be compared to the hamburger and the Coke, which have also taken the world by storm. Hamburgers and Cokes are excellent in their ways, and so is abstract expression-but luckily the nation has other nourishment to offer as well...
...delegating authority to able associates, e.g., brash Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, ironing out differences, keeping a sharp eye on the ledger. When methodical Cecil King heard last week that a rival bid had been entered for Amalgamated, he was certain that his board of directors would up his offer as necessary, took off as scheduled for Africa, confident that he would become the King of press kings...