Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previously reticent Premier is showing more self-confidence and political skill. He is also getting stronger and more popular, partly because he is now the sole dispenser of U.S. aid in South Viet Nam, but more importantly because Diem is developing a novel formula that is catching Vietnamese imagination: a nationalist, puritanical revulsion from the corruption and immorality that most Vietnamese associate with the discredited French colonials...
...such entertainers as Cinemactor William Lundigan (Chrysler), Singer Vaughn Monroe (RCA Victor), Ballet Dancer Dorothy Jarnac (Stopette). Even where commercial announcers are kept on the job, entertainers are being hired to introduce them. On NBC's Oldsmobile Spectaculars, Actor Lee Bowman dresses up in evening clothes for the sole purpose of saying: "And now, ladies and gentlemen, here is Ed Herlihy with a message from our sponsor...
...Schneiter of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. Though Schneiter, a Resistance hero and mayor of Reims, is personally not hostile to Mendès in the fashion of Mendès-hating M.R.P.er Georges Bidault and his followers, the election was everywhere understood as a rebuff to the Premier. "The sole of the boot was for Le Troquer," rejoiced one anti-Mendès Deputy, "but the heel was for Mend...
...heal the breach of peace, the O.A.S. used energy, speed and a historic new tool: armed observation planes supplied by the U.S. Navy from the Canal Zone. Sent on the sole authority of the U.S., such police planes would have been unthinkable Yankee intervention, but the O.A.S. as an international body was able with heightened prestige to accept the offer of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, U.S. Latin American affairs chief. Flying over rebel territory, the investigation commission learned enough to dispose firmly of Somoza's claim that his country had nothing to do with the invasion. They...
...their way past a ringside table where sat a handsome woman who was, in a sense, their hostess. Watching the debutantes with intense interest, Jacqueline Cochran, famed flyer and businesswoman, recalled that when she was 18 she had already been working for ten years and was, she guessed, "the sole support of several people." Now, as head of Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, Inc., she was the cotillion's sponsor. She had no part in planning the ball, but she had paid about $10,000 to cover its cost. In return, the company received some commercials during the evening...