Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently Businessman Cord forgot that successful politicians talk often and act cautiously. Cord somehow never filed for governor, gave no reason, left an impression that his health was poor. Incautiously he backed lackluster Harvey Dickerson, 53, Nevada attorney general and a habitual also-ran, for the governor's nomination, unabashedly poured an estimated $75,000 into Dickerson's campaign. When enterprising Dickerson Opponent Grant Sawyer, Elko County district attorney, cried that Cord was buying the governor's mansion just as he had bought corporations, tight-lipped Politician Cord ignored the charge. The impression took root; by last...
Personally, I made no attempt not to look like a foreigner and was approached a score of times on the street, often near the big hotels that all have uniformed militiamen standing outside them. Sometimes people just wanted to talk, sometimes to buy dollars. (I tried to find out what they wanted them for; all said they were buying them for "friends"-perhaps Soviet tourists, of whom hundreds are currently loose in groups in Europe.) Sometimes teen-agers wanted to exchange Soviet emblems, officers' pips, even medals for chewing gum, foreign clothes, pens and dollars. In most cases, these...
Speeches & Exhibits. The delegates came loaded with 2,300 scientific papers, 600 of which they were to present orally at five parallel series of meetings, with often baffled translators trying to deliver the highly technical texts in four languages. Along with this scientific five-ring circus ran two monster exhibitions, technical and commercial. The U.S. technical exhibit, which many visitors consider a triumph, and much better than the U.S. effort at the Brussels World's Fair, is staffed by white-coated scientists and 50 attractive, multilingual girls, who were put through a three-week crash course in basic nucleonics...
...could finance nonself-liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would lessen the pressure on the U.S. for shaky loans or grants. It would also cool the heat on the U.S. in another way. The U.S. has often had to talk tough to a borrower after loans were granted, to force him to put his fiscal house in order. A borrower would undoubtedly take such talk from the nations in the fund with much better grace...
...traditionally unsophisticated Brooklyn, Federated's Abraham & Straus often plugs its goods in sophisticated ads with its slogan ("Do not say you cannot find it until you have shopped at A & S!") spelled out in Latin, Greek, French or Icelandic. It lives up to its slogan by providing such items as lefthanded scissors, cutters for soft-boiled eggs, holders for used tea bags, concave head brushes for bald men (with nylon bristles). While every other major Brooklyn department store has closed or sold out in the past ten years, A & S has grown more prosperous than ever, now boasts...