Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.-Lady Markby in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband...
...President. "I would dare to dispute the integrity of the President," Ickes retorted, "on any occasion that my country's welfare demanded it." At week's end it was over. Until Mr. Truman appointed a new Secretary (a matter already of much speculation), Ickes' assistant, Oscar L. Chapman, would hold down...
Such spoofing is one way of placating his pet peeves, says Abe. But the "good things, like Oscar Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan and Christmas carols" he cannot kid. That still leaves him plenty of subjects...
Cried Mississippi Planter Oscar Johnson, the Council's owlish president: "Cotton can defeat any competitor on today's horizon if it is given equality with that competitor in scientific support, sales pressure and production efficiency." Johnson called upon the raw cotton industry to contribute money and manpower for the attack. It was hinted that as much as $25,000,000 might be spent annually on research alone...
Almost every country had its blueprint. One of the best was Fomento's (Chilean Government planning and financing corporation), sparked by vigorous Oscar Gajardo. Fomento had already spent $110,000,000, expected to put $140,000,000 more into economic landscaping this year. Its comprehensive plan reaches from steel to oil, from cattle to fish canning...