Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country and a little less of their own personal position, the party would be in a position to wage an aggressive campaign." Harry Truman, who had handled himself with admirable restraint and good sense through all the bickering, was still confident. He was sure that he had found a sound campaign argument in the record of the 80th Congress. In his own homely style he would pound it home across the nation. And his fortunes and popularity would probably rise a bit. They could hardly sink lower...
...stamping ground for Plaza. As a general's disinherited son, in the depths of the depression he had sold apples on a Manhattan street corner. Later he returned to the U.S. as his country's ambassador. Now he plans to see bankers as well as doctors, sound them out for some new loans to get his administration started. Another possibility: persuading his friend Nelson Rockefeller to start a development corporation in Ecuador like his Basic Economy Corporation in Venezuela...
...Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck heard it when he told party leaders that they must fight the "infection" of diversionist elements. "In the last three weeks," cried Pieck, "you have lost all the popularity you have gained in the last three years." And the children heard the sound, and feared it, for it stirred memories of bombings not so long ago-children like twelve-year-old Max, who each night recited an English prayer he had learned in his German school...
...little speech, Correspondent Hugh Hessell Tiltman of the London Daily Herald was brutally frank. "I must sound a warning to you Japanese," he told the Nagoya Chamber of Commerce. "The only yardstick by which you measure world reaction towards yourselves is the extremely friendly attitude of the occupation personnel, but there are other places in the world where people are by no means inclined to forget so soon what has happened. I've just come back from Malaya and I must say it'll be some time before Japanese can safely do business there...
Under the basing-point system, the important fact was that cement delivered to any given job was sold at a uniform price, no matter who manufactured it. To the court this was collusion, and a wicked practice that must be stopped forthwith. However sound the decision, it did not make things crystal clear. Just a week later, in another Big Business case, the Court upheld an FTC order which seemed to make the appearance of collusion inescapable...