Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean That Plate. Charles's workday now begins at 9:15 after he hangs up his coat and hat on a peg newly labeled "Prince Charles." At the double desk he shares with a London doctor's son, he studies reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography and science, will soon add Latin and elementary anatomy. At 11 a.m. he gets half a pint of free milk that is provided by the government, later pays 35? for a hot lunch. Though addressed as Prince Charles, he must obey all the rules, keep silent during the meal, and clean his plate...
...Some labor economists have suggested that a series of brand-new organizations be set up to change U.S. credit operations drastically, e.g., a National Capital Issues Committee, which would have dictatorial powers to allocate all credit, set all interest rates, and, in effect, peg the debt level for every businessman and private citizen in the U.S. Another suggestion is that the FRB's responsibility for backing the Employment Act be written into law. While FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin assumed' that he must help maintain full employment, no such basic mission is contained in the original charter...
...moment, Eden seemed to have weathered the worst. The impatient were glad that Eden had done something at last; the embarrassed were glad that he had stopped doing it. Most Britons were at least delighted to see Nasser taken down a peg. Attending the Lord Mayor's banquet in the Guildhall at week's end, Eden was applauded by crowds on the sidewalk, applauded again when the waiting dignitaries broke precedent to cheer him and Lady Eden as they entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter...
Instead of slyly coupling the Maidenform ad drive with any contemplated campaign for Adlai Stevenson, wouldn't it have been more newsworthy to pick up a Timelier peg for Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc.-the agency that masterminded and launched The $64,000 Question! Nothing wrong with Maidenform, but surely you'd have chosen a different type of account to characterize N. C. & K.'s opposite number and to try to dignify what promises to be a dilly of an ad promotion for the Republican Party. Going to tell your readers about "hard sell...
...hand-picked candidate came in a painful week. Two days before the election, he slipped on a slickly waxed floor in his seaside house and cracked a thighbone. Protesting that "these confounded elections are being held," he resisted treatment for a day, finally let surgeons operate and peg the break with a metal pin. But in spite of his troubles, Odría came out of the election fairly well...