Word: quids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more, I think, to friend than foe, / Your very name excruciates my ears- / I hope you roast in hell, Horatio, / Because we've been together twenty years...
...nation whose favorite weekly pastime is "having a flutter" by risking sixpence in football pools on the chance of winning $280,000, the proposal was hailed with glee. "Honest Harold always pays," headlined the Laborite Daily Mirror. "Give him your quid and you might win ?1,000. Gambling? Oh dear...
...time when the country is deeply worried about its wheat surplus would be a devious but possibly effective way to make friends. Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe made it clear, however, that as far as Canada was concerned, the business was strictly business. Said Howe: "No quid pro quo has been asked for and none has been offered...
Then, while the controversial natural gas bill was under heated debate on the floor of the Senate, South Dakota Senator Francis Case revealed that an oil company's agent had contributed $2,500 to his campaign fund in the hope that Case would respond with quid...
...conditional upon how a government is ruled or what wars it has started. It is, therefore, only a matter of time before Red China makes the grade. When it does, our delegation will be lucky to get Japan admitted also. The U.S. must try for some quid pro quo: maintaining the Chinese Nationalists as the government of Formosa or insuring that Outer Mongolia remains outer. Mr. Dulles' main consolation, as he faces the task of breaking the news to the American people, is that next year's membership struggle on the East River will come only a month after...