Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field is a choice plum for people in any one of the ROTC programs since the third and fourth year courses in either Military, Naval or Air Science may be offered toward fulfillment of the concentration requirements...
Walks in the Kremlin. The biggest plum of all went to Molotov. In 1930, at the age of 40, he became Premier. His acceptance speech: "I received my schooling under the direct guidance of ... Comrade Stalin. I am proud of this. Until today, I had to work mainly as a party worker. I declare to you, comrades, that I am going to work in the government also as a party worker, as the agent of the party's will...
...another plum to Russia's citizens, the Kremlin announced a general price reduction on 125 items of consumer goods. The cuts range from 5% on wines and woolens to 50% on fruits and vegetables; theoretically, they will lower the sky-high Soviet cost of living by 8%. But previous price cuts have been largely offset by increases in taxes and by taxpayers' "loans" to the government. The latest markdowns leave the average Russian worker laboring more than a week for a cheap pair of shoes, 18 weeks for a top-quality suit-when he can find them...
With this prospective revenue drain, the plum looked rather biliously green to the Administration. Faced with a growing national debt that was already scraping the 275 million dollar limit, and Truman's parting prediction of a ten billion dollar deficit, Eisenhower made an abrupt about face. "A reduction in taxes," he said in his State of the Union message, "should come only as we can succeed in bringing the budget under control...
...women in the parade were slim and graceful, furled like striped umbrellas into acres of cotton cloth-some green, some plum, some crimson, and all decorated with patterns of elephants, tropical fish, signs of the zodiac and portraits of the late King George VI. The men, short, square and knobbly at the knees, wore Palm Beach shirts, open at the neck and hanging, like Harry Truman's, outside their shorts; a few had flowing togas, draped off one shoulder so that they looked like British soccer players decked out as Romans. Everyone in the procession was black, and proud...