Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five thousand Ankara students marched through the capital shouting "Down with Makarios!" . Others gathered at the statue of Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, to sing his favorite marching song: The Mist Covers the Top of the Mountain. Then they marched angrily to army headquarters to present a parcel of Cyprus soil to the General Staff. The demonstrators wanted action from the government, and they got it in the form of a gravely worded note issued by the Foreign Office. "The massacre, which is becoming a genocide, has forced Turkey to review its peace-loving and patient attitude," declared...
While the executive has much to gain from an option, the company has nothing to lose; it simply sets aside a parcel of its unissued shares-usually about 5% of the total stock-for its key men to pick up later. U.S. Steel limits its options to 300 top managers, and many other large companies give options only to vice presidents or chief executives. But General Electric spreads its 4,000,000 optioned shares among 1,555 employees, Westinghouse grants them to plant managers and research assistants, and Hewlett-Packard has even reserved some stock options for top salesmen...
...truly do not care for any man who would parcel out my God-given liberties. I am a black man whose patience has run out, and I criticized John F. Kennedy until that day his murder shocked me into despair. Suddenly I felt that he was certainly a champion for all men and that he had been struggling in a sea of hatred...
When economists parcel out credit for the vigorous profit showing, they give generous shares to the high rate of production (industrial production hit a new high in July), the steady buying of consumers and the relatively stable wage rates that have accompanied a period of comparatively peaceful labor relations. But businessmen feel that they themselves deserve more of a pat on the back. RCA President Elmer...
...children that automakers often direct their advertising campaigns: one Ford station-wagon commercial piles a parcel of kids into a wagon to impress on youthful viewers that in a Ford the whole gang can go with togetherness...