Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harlem theater enjoyed a sellout business with a new attraction: old Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, featured (at $7,500 per week) as a member of a dance revue...
This kind of "deal," besides having the air of a sellout, would be not real advantage to the Administration. Loading the six man Commission with high tariff partisans would be a large price to pay for Stimpson's cooperation in Congress. The President has forwarded his own bill for the continuation of the Trade Act. The measure makes a logical and encouraging sequence to the British move of increasing the percentage of their Continental imports, and West Germany's similar trade-easing move. The President has rightly acted to leave open the chance for lower tariffs, but he need...
...Times. Said Art News: "One of the few painters to emerge from postwar Paris with something personal to say, and a way of saying it with authority." Manhattan buyers were just as complimentary in a more practical way: by week's end the show was a near sellout...
Bohlen, it seems, was at Yalta interpreting Roosevelt's English into Russian and Stalin's Russian into English. This, say the Senators, makes Bohlen partially responsible for what they feel the biggest sellout since Munich. Perhaps Bohlen deliberately misinterpreted conversations to bring on the Great Tragedy. Anyway, they say he is a poor security risk, and are bucking their President and their party to stop...
...interesting to see some Republicans still blaming all the woes of the world on Yalta. Ever since the abortive resolution "blaming" Roosevelt and Truman for the plight of Eastern Europe, Senators who know something about foreign policy have realized that the "Yalta sellout" is nothing but campaign ballyhoo. Regrettably, other Senators, without the time or interest to learn the facts, have accepted the political slogan as gospel. It is a case of infatuation with one's own campaign oratory...