Word: rust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President to translate rhetoric into reality, to assign priorities and price tags to his visions. The budget's cold columns leave no room for fantasies-just stark, unyielding figures. In the budget for fiscal 1968 that Lyndon Johnson is sending to Congress this week, bound in a subdued, rust-colored cover, the priorities are baldly stated. The President calls for a sizable increase in defense spending to sustain the Viet Nam war, with a complementary slowdown-though not an actual decrease-in Great Society spending...
...such cards for holidays and for just about any other occasion as well, Cleveland's American Greetings Corp. is the fastest-growing company in the U.S.'s $800 million-a-year greeting-card industry. The trade's five biggest companies-Hallmark, American Greetings, Gibson, Norcross and Rust Craft-have a steady annual increase in sales. American Greetings alone is growing almost 14% a year, this year will have record sales of $94 million...
Last year Hammond started the game on the bench, despite the fact he'd shut out Princeton the week before. Nat Bow ditch, just back from a month on the injured list, was Coach Bruce Munro's choice to start, but the senior's rust came out in the mud and Hammond was sent in to try to stop the onslaught. Hammond instead stopped a Brown player's foot with his head and was unconscious for 30 minutes...
...officers of U.S.S. Safeguard (ARS-25) noted with much interest your story, "The Skunk Watchers" [Oct. 14]. As Safeguard is a sister ship to the U.S.S. Conserver (ARS-39), we found to our amazement that our relative is a "rust-pitted, rickety tug" that apparently is doing well to stay afloat, let alone actually operate...
...being rust-pitted and rickety: when one considers the mission of an ARS, it becomes very clear that there are times when she is going to get scratched, banged and, in general, look quite shoddy. But it is at this time that she is probably doing her best work in assisting some other vessel. The overall material condition of the ARS is every bit as good as any sleek destroyer afloat...