Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional Republicans, who figure by rough rule of thumb that they must get 55% of the vote outside the Democratic South to win this year's congressional elections, found themselves at the lowest low since 1936. Gallup poll of Northerners...
...much-kneaded ball of dough on the U.S. breadboard is the expense account. Suspicious that thousands of people collect more than a few crumbs with every outlay for business expenses, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service decided to try to police a longstanding rule that taxpayers report the excess of reimbursements over expenses. Last year IRS put a line on the 1957 tax form for reporting reimbursed expenses, hastily gave taxpayers a year's moratorium after a howl rocked the very foundation of expense-accountland, sent martini glasses aquivering from Manhattan's gay "21" restaurant to Los Angeles...
Good negotiators know from experience that each small cluster of homes has one householder who is regarded as the pacesetter of the neighborhood. Negotiator's rule of thumb: find the key man, sign him and his neighbors will follow suit. But property owners have their code too. Few ever admit to satisfaction with the appraisal; all complain, often with justification, that intangibles are involved that the state never takes into consideration...
...outlined by Sallust and Plutarch, ending in the betrayal and death of the slaves' leader, the gladiator Spartacus (a favorite historical character of Karl Marx). Composer Khachaturian, a Stalin Prizewinner, diplomatically finds the ballet apt "at a time when many peoples are fighting for liberation and colonial rule is crumbling...
Half-Pint Without a Cause. In Towner, N.Dak., an empty cream bottle, left on a counter in the Golden Rule Store, collected nearly a dollar in small coins before a clerk noticed...