Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down with Egoism! To French dismay, every other NATO member lined up behind the U.S. in defense of integration. Even though De Gaulle has assiduously courted the West Germans, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss pointedly condemned "special egoistic interests within NATO." And many of the French themselves made it plain that they were out of sympathy with De Gaulle's position...
...Russia are nationalized. But in fact, to judge by the most recent hue and cry in the Moscow press, the entrepreneur in human nature is never dead, and a moral smog hangs over Russia. In the world's most advanced socialist state, private enterprise, profiteering, and just plain payoffs seem to be bursting out all over...
Throughout the year, the full extent of the free world's progress was often clouded by worry over the economic threat of the Communist nations. The Soviets and their satellites made fast progress. But the free world traveled faster. The record was plain in the soaring production statistics, the freeing of currencies from tight controls, and in the fact that the "economy of abundance," once a U.S. phrase and fact, was visible in other lands...
...challenge from the world is plain, and so is the solution. "If one thing is clear," says Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman. "it is that we cannot go back. Weary slogans, old patterns of thought will not be too useful in the 1960s." As Holman and many another U.S. businessman knows, the growth of the U.S. was not accomplished by old patterns of thought. It was accomplished by new ideas and experimentation, by resourcefulness and eagerness...
...Plain, Golden...