Word: quids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quid Pro Quo. Phil Murray doubtless figured that the week had been worth its loss of sleep. Labor's objective, he had said, could be stated in three little words: "Substantial wage increases." Now it looked as if he was going to get them for his Steelworkers...
...such, the plan put the next move squarely up to Russia. Before the communique was issued there was some speculation that it would contain demands on Russia for a full statement of its political and economic aims. But Truman, Attlee and King asked for a different-and better -quid pro quo. In effect, they demanded that in exchange for atomic information
...general election. . . . Should we be successful in the election a very happy burden will fall upon our shoulders. . . . The job has to be finished and I am here to tell you that we must brace ourselves. . . ." Caretaker Coalition. This much was not unexpected, but what set party quid nuncs a-buzzing was Churchill's next canny pronouncement: "Should it fall to me, as it may do, to form a Government before elections, I shall seek aid not only of Conservatives, but of men of good will of any party or of no party." In other words, he would invite...
...P.E.N. Club met to celebrate Areopagitica's tercentenary with a conference on: 'The Place of Spiritual and Economic Values in the Future of Mankind." Outside, glass tinkled as cleaners swept up the Institutes buzz-bombed windows. Within the drafty building P.E.N.'s calm General Secretary Hermon Quid remarked: "A klaxon will sound for imminent danger. That will not allow time to leave the hall, so you must just duck. We are all used to behaving oddly, and we might as well do it in good company...
...been asking the British too many questions about their vast oil reserves in the Middle East. Still another eye-popping Petroleum News report was that Franklin Roosevelt himself had thought of demanding a half interest for the U.S. in Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. as a quid pro quo for lend-leased U.S. oil, but had backed down before Teheran...