Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though the most prosperous country in Europe, West Germany has refused to contribute more than 5.5% of its swelling gross national product to its own defense. Britain, despite inflationary troubles, contributes 10.1%, the U.S. 11.6%. ¶ Despite its failure to build its own army, West Germany, in the person of pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, for months refused flatly to continue its cash contributions to the support of Allied troops in Germany. ¶ West Germany is receiving $1 billion worth of arms from the U.S. as a gift-but the only comments heard are complaints that the arms...
...took some friends to Au Bec Fin, an excellent French restaurant, and a four-course luncheon cost less than $1 a person," the wife of a U.S. businessman who lives in Buenos Aires reported last week. "Movies at five cents, sugar at a penny a pound-if Americans would like the fine, careless rapture of living in 1956 with such items on their budgets, all they have to do is to take the next plane to Bolivia," a U.S. woman wrote from Cochabamba. With the forces of exchange legalization, runaway inflation and currency liberation variously at work, dollar-earners...
...Thirty-six percent feel that they need more time for reading, study and private devotions (the daily average: an hour and 38 minutes). But almost 28% feel that a minister should be an "outer-directed person" or "radiant personality." Most galling problem of ministers (29%) was a sense of not living up "to the calling." Eleven percent were bothered by conflicts -"study v. out-with-the-people," "oiling machinery v. essential work...
...real tennis and piquet, an aversion to high tea, having one's cards engraved (not printed) and, in some cases, a dislike of certain comparatively modern inventions such as the telephone, the cinema and the wireless." But in general, added Ross, the best way to tell the U person is by his way of speaking...
...take a bath"; the U version is "have one's bath." U usage is a nought for the U.S. zero, and what? for pardon! The word civil has a special meaning for the upper class: it is "used to approve the behavior of a non-U person in that the latter has appreciated the difference between U and non-U, e.g., 'The guard was certainly very civil...