Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joyce Clyde Hall, 68, founder and president of Hallmark greeting cards. Some time in the next few days. Hall will choose a Christmas card from this year's Hallmark line and send it to no fewer than 6,000 friends and acquaintances. He can afford it. Over the past 50 years, Hallmark has grown into the goliath of the greeting card business, producing 4,000,000 copies of 11,000 different cards each day for sale through 22,000 retailers in four countries. Hallmark's gross is estimated at more than $90 million annually, twice...
...that his decisions come from "the vapor of experience." Out of this fog has come an almost uninterrupted string of correct answers on what cards the fickle U.S. public will buy. "I have a hard time explaining why." says Hall. "But I know-there's something in the past years that's telling...
...offers unflattering answers to these and other significant questions. Author Emmet John Hughes, chief of correspondents in Time Inc.'s Foreign News Service, and sometime (1952 campaign, 1953, and 1956 campaign) speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, clearly hopes to get his fellow citizens to face the errors of the past so that they may grapple more knowingly with the realities of the future. Paradoxically, the book's existence seems to refute some of its charges. If the great debate on America's international aims had sunk to "a stammering of scarcely sensible noises," as Author Hughes asserts...
Peter Piperisms. The national fear of secret diplomacy has become "suspicion of any diplomacy." This, in turn, lies at the core of what Hughes regards as the greatest U.S. diplomatic shortcoming of the past decade, the "evading" of direct negotiations with the Soviet Union. Author Hughes seems to find Soviet diplomatic maneuvers venturesome, flexible and imaginative, however brutal, and American diplomacy uninventive. bumbling and myopic, however decent. He pays ungrudging respect to the Marshall Plan and U.S. intervention in Korea and Lebanon, but he dismisses the concepts of "liberation." "containment" and "massive retaliation" as semantic pacifiers...
...peppered with Peter Piperisms, e.g., "Many myths thus made the marvelous mirage." But its basic message is simple and fervent: the U.S. must think its way through to the right answers, for "our nation lives under no benign dispensation from such tragedy as has tormented and broken empires of past ages...