Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must recognize . . . that we can't get more out of the economic system than we put in ... and that monetary and fiscal tricks have no power of magic but are a slippery road to misery...
...want, spoke quietly and simply of his people's past sufferings and of their present needs. But sometimes his words suggested that he did not want to be tainted by the riches and the power he saw about him-even though they might help India along her difficult road. Said he: "It is just like the man who possesses many valuables . . . being constantly afraid of losing or somebody stealing them . . . Possibly he might be a more comfortable man if he didn't have them ... In the terms that the world measures the nations of today, we are weak...
...lieutenants: "The Old Man's dead against showing too much target for them to attack us. Instead, he's set on seeking out the cracks in their armor and probing home his steel wherever he can penetrate." In accordance with their platform, The Right Road for Britain (which has sold 2½ million copies since it was published last summer-TIME, Aug. 1), the Tory leaders called for a reduction of taxes and government spending, promised they would keep Labor's social services but manage them less wastefully, would halt but not abolish the nationalization of industry...
...Ospina Perez for president. Ospina won because of a Liberal split. Many thought Laureano might have the good sense to put up another moderate this year. But the fires of April 9 burned too brightly in his memory. Liberals, moreover, heaped on fresh fuel. United behind middle-of-the-road Dario Echandia, and fed to the teeth by unsuppressed rural political violence (392 deaths in September according to the Liberals), they used their congressional majority to advance the election date six months to Nov. 27 in expectation of a quick victory...
Essentially, the C.N.R. presidency is a job of selling the public. Many a Canadian has criticized the road as a white elephant and urged that it be joined to the privately owned Canadian Pacific. Gordon, who will take over on Jan. i, is expected to drum home the theme that C.N.R. is a national necessity (e.g., it maintains services vital to national development), and to follow through with changes that will lighten its financial load...