Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if anyone has ever replied to President Joseph Fitzsimmons' quote of Don Quixote with one by Mark Twain: "Behold, the fool saith, 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention,' but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - watch that basket...
...Willy Brandt cover (May 25), the Berliner Zeitung in East Berlin said sarcastically that to be on TIME'S cover is "a high honor generally reserved only for faithful servants of American bank and stock-market barons." Quicker than anyone could say verdammte Lüge, the USIS put up a window display in West Berlin (see cut) that told the Germans, including the thousands of East Berliners who shop there, what all except Communists have known for a long time...
...often in a position to force a middle-sized producer to turn out a private label for his product for them at a lower price, or they will not buy from him at all. The real fear is that the supermarkets, in their increasing competition with each other, will put such a premium on profit margins that they will squeeze out more and more name brands to the ultimate harm of the consumer, who has benefited most from the new products that have been developed...
...mean the 'Mom-and-Pop' operations-the ones where Pop comes home from his regular job to gather eggs every night.'' McAnally figures that Benson's egg buying has simply encouraged marginal farmers to hang grimly on, inspired big operators to put more baby chicks into the production line for still larger surpluses this fall...
...assistant and timekeeper. They wind up in a hut at Five Rivers, where sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun by day, pour rum down their parched throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio but does not know it requires electricity; the village laborers...