Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in a day when the traitor has become a headline staple, the name of Benedict Arnold remains the U.S.'s symbol of ultimate treachery. His was the classic sellout, the shocker that reduced a national hero to a despised knave. Yet there are still those ready to defend him as a maligned soldier who was goaded into villainy, and schoolteachers in his home state of Connecticut have complained that it becomes increasingly difficult to present him as a traitor...
...bitter disillusionment I am learning that Eisenhower is a fatuous Chamberlain who has perpetrated the greatest sellout since Munich . . . He has sold out South Korea and is proceeding to kick the venerable S. Rhee in the teeth because the Korean President has the patriotism to protest...
...give lip service to racial equality, the prospect of having a Negro move into the house next door will often bring qualms about declining property values and a panicky urge to sell out fast. Last week one group of Philadelphia families fought back in a novel way against sellout fever...
Public power advocates charged, of course, that McKay's decision was a "sellout" to private interests. McKay made it clear that his department would still go on building big, multi-purpose dams where private capital could not do the job. But the Administration had decided to let private enterprise have first crack at river valley development jobs it could handle...
...fiveyear, ten-month, 2½% bonds or short-term notes in exchange for $3.8 billion of maturing certificates (TIME, Feb. 9). The certificate holders took only $619 million worth of the longer-term issue. But as the bonds went on sale this week, it looked like a quick sellout...