Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year the law was slightly liberalized. The ban on persons with police records was lifted to admit those who had committed nothing more than a misdemeanor. Before that, a refugee who, for example, had forged a ration card in Nazi Germany was excluded. Categories were also changed to admit more easy-to-process Dutch, Greek and Italian relatives of U.S. residents in place of refugees in those countries...
...Britain only a single herd of cows seemed to take any joy in the week's weather. They were watered with an emergency ration delivered in old whisky barrels from a local distillery...
Until last fall the club was able to sail at M.I.T. four and sometimes five times each week. An increase in the number of schools which now depend on sharing the use of the Engineers' 52 dinghies has forced M.I.T. to ration out its flotilla more carefully...
There are compensations-of a kind. In the vast Soviet prison system, Vorkuta is classified as a "polar camp," which means that prisoners get better food. The daily ration includes 800 grams of bread and two warm dishes, usually oatmeal, thick soup or beans with fat. There is meat twice weekly, fish four times. Movies, usually Russian, are shown three times a month. Pravda is pasted on the wall...
...fees ranging from $800 for checking a single short commercial to $54,000 for a yearly contract. In Manhattan's 400-seat Avon Theater, he tests ads and new programs on both cross-section audiences and special groups invited by mail (such as dog owners for Ken-L-Ration commercials). The viewers turn in reports to determine how much of the sales message is retained. Since most of his business comes from corporations checking on their ad agencies, he naturally hears many a snide comment about his work from Madison Avenue's and alley. Retorts Schwerin: "Agencies must...