Word: sole
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Southeast Asian official: "Send us the best you have, as many as possible, and as quickly as you can." The stripling volunteers have shouldered responsibilities that would turn a grownup grey-or green with envy. In Sarawak, a 19-year-old boy, lately a factory apprentice, is in sole charge of a primary school, a first-aid clinic and a rubber plantation. In the Solomon Islands, one pink-cheeked girl recently delivered a native woman's twins. In British Guiana, a 19-year-old is the only white person within 50 miles, does everything from mending Amerindians' canoes...
...Teutonic blend of business judgment and sentiment, last week summed up the exit of the grand old gadgeteer of the West German auto industry. With his Borgward auto complex some $48 million in debt, 70-year-old Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward agreed to give up his positions as president, sole owner, chief engineer and designer of the firm he founded 33 years ago and built into the sixth-largest automaker in Germany. The Bremen city council will take over Borgward and its subsidiaries to try to save the 19,000 jobs-some 23% of Bremen's work force...
...Style. Iraqis date the change from last November, when the Communists organized a strike of tobacco workers in Baghdad. Apparently, this was too much for Iraq's "sole leader," Major General Abdel Kerim Kassem. Army troops turned on the demonstrators, brusquely broke up the strike. Since then, 28 Communists have been condemned to death and ten others sentenced to terms of life imprisonment for atrocities perpetrated in the 1959 rioting. Party workers have been purged from government offices, the army and the trade unions. The Russian ambassador himself recently got a two-hour raking over from Kassem, who accused...
...Nasserites seem in no hurry to unhorse Kassem. "He could probably be puffed out like a candle, but he may very well go on for a long time," said one pro-Nasserite comfortably. The freedom from tension has pervaded all levels and classes. At a political rally recently, Sole Leader Kassem orated to his working-class audience: "Like you, I have only one shirt." Out of the crowd came a heckler's cry: "Before you came, I had two." Such casual impudence belongs to Iraq's new mood...
...mundane kind of sanctity. In his early middle age he is sometimes the virtuous and successful artisan-turned-entrepreneur, who could offer the sound advice of one who had walked into Philadelphia with a few coppers, three loaves and a knowledge of how to set up type as his sole capital. "Time is money," he wrote in Poor Richard in 1745, and would add a sound little essay on capitalism in terms of groats earned by labor and pounds earning groats by credit. Or he would burst into verse in 1749 on this subject that he had mastered...