Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain resort at a safe distance from the Tibetan border-so as not to give offense to Red China. He will be inundated by the good wishes of the free world, but for the foreseeable future, the Dalai Lama and 3,000,000 Tibetan patriots can only put their trust-as their ancestors did before them -in the Three Precious Jewels of Tibetan Buddhism: the Buddha, the Doctrine and the Community...
...island hideaway at Spanish Cay (rhymes with fee). Standard Oil Heiress Marion Carstairs and her half brother Francis Francis bought adjoining Whale Cay and Bird Cay. Longtime Alcoa Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis built expensive Rock Sound Club, a public hotel, on Eleuthera. While he was at it, Davis put up the truly private Cotton Bay Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert Trent Jones-designed $600,000 golf course, and bought 25,000 acres of pink-beached paradise. Last week he was closing a deal to sell a sizable chunk of his acreage...
...Castro has indefinitely put off the restoration of democracy-elections, a Congress, civil justice-pending a deep-surgery social revolution that he has had in mind for half a dozen years. He spoke little of this kind of revolution during his anti-Batista fight, which was financed by rich and professional Cubans sick of dictatorship. But the revolution is now plainly aimed at soaking the rich-business and landlords-and at favoring peasants (who helped Castro's war) and labor (which sat on its hands). Actions...
...mistakes we made in our youth? Look at that kid pointing to his new son-in-law, slicing the many-tiered wedding cake. Now everybody is going to hook him up with me. No one will hire him. I'll have to give him a .45 and put him to work...
...featherbedding, Jim took on a strike by the powerful International Typographical Union in 1948, kept the paper on the street, set up a nonunion shop, won the battle hands down. (The I.T.U. considers the strike still in effect to this day.) All told, Jim performed so well that Jack put him in overall charge as Miami general manager in 1951. Four years later, Jim Knight took over as publisher of a new Knight property: the fat and venerable Charlotte morning Observer...