Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those of us who believe that the monarchy can survive and play an even more beneficent part . . . are not content to remain silent while needless errors go uncorrected...
...found the British embassy swarming with refugees seeking aid. The British ambassador, desperate for a place to bed them down, finally settled on a proffered villa in Estoril, only to find too late that it was the home of a pro-Nazi Portuguese banker, who stayed on to play host to the visitors...
...Major Eisenhower, that he took Ike's draft paragraphs, cut them out and pasted them into the proper order to constitute the proposed law (a defense measure), and sent it off to President Manuel Quezon, who rammed it through Congress without a change. Yulo, who used to play golf with Ike at Canlubang Country Club, quotes Major Eisenhower as exclaiming in wonder: "This is legislation by shears...
Besides the damage and loss of human lives, the government fretted over the earthquake's possible effect on the vital tourist trade. Although only 10% of U.S. tourists pulled out, the government tried to play down the earthquake. Official figures put the national death total at 67, and even when eleven more bodies were unearthed in Mexico City one day last week, the official count stayed the same. More likely fatality figures: about 200, all but 50 in Mexico City...
Millions of Americans also quicken to the glamour of business as described in countless TV shows, movies, novels and magazine stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...