Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buckley had already made a national name for himself with his first book, God and Man at Yale, which accused his Alma Mater of preaching liberalism and secularism to the exclusion of almost everything else. And in that fall of 1955, the articulate young conservative found the political weather parlous. "Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt gone Social-Democrat," he wrote. The press, he said, was a mess of "New Deal journalism"; conformity, fabricated by "Social Engineers," loomed as "the largest cultural menace in America...
Publishers also fear that some readers might kick the newspaper habit once they have been off it long enough-particularly commuters who have grown used to picking up magazines and paperbacks or taking home work from the office. Given the parlous financial condition of at least three Manhattan dailies, such penalties could prove too much to bear, and the long-predicted "shakeout" among New York's newspapers could come fairly soon...
...stock markets have been sagging for months. In some cases, the causes were local: the London Exchange reflected the generally listless state of the British economy and the government's eleven-month-old drive to prevent wage rises while the Tokyo Exchange was unsettled by the momentarily parlous state of Japan's balance of payments. But in most of the world's financial centers, brokers attributed their troubles to the fact that investors, preoccupied with capital growth, had run stock prices up to levels far higher than dividend yields or per-share earnings warranted...
...seeks excuses, and then he resorts to them with a relish that most of us save for deep shade on a hot day. Mother taxes, the bomb, far from feeding his inspiration, are now the very stuff (he says) that poisoned him. He intoned with authority against the parlous times. He wrings his hands and he yells for reform. When this happens is he not the same man as the one who attacks "Harvard" for the lack of creativity in its authors? Harvard., and a brief listing of its alumni will show is a great place for aspiring writers...
...from the Mohawk. Forcing this elaborate treaty between two old combatants was one overriding consideration: the increasingly parlous economics of Eastern railroading. The Pennsy, which as late as 1955 reported net profits of $41 million, showed a deficit of $2.7 million in the first eleven months of last year. The Central, which netted $52 million in 1955, lost $15.9 million in the first eleven months of 1961. By merging, the two roads hope to save as much as $150 million a year in operating costs. They can eliminate hundreds of miles of side-by-side track, cut back...