Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength is of strategic importance to us." Moreover, "I am not persuaded that [the tariff hike] would constitute a sound step in resolving [the domestic industry's] difficulties"-at the heart of which, Administration spokesmen have pointed out, are declining U.S. catches caused by such made-in-the-U.S. problems as overfishing in local waters and aging vessels...
...Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that he bought the books for the pretty red bindings, never read a thing. Tough, stubborn, quizzical, Mr. De delighted in pulling such switches; he could sound in turn like a reactionary, a radical, an ignoramus or a bohemian. As an unpredictable intellectual, he singlehandedly derricked the foundering Saturday Review of Literature out of a hole in 1941 with a check for $22,500 (and when Editor Norman Cousins offered to have papers drawn up, replied: "We shook...
...hear when he takes the disks home (buying has actually been cut down by a phonograph playing samples in the store) but the riotously colorful jackets are enough to make sales soar. Packaging and merchandising are fancy and getting fancier-Cellophane windows, stereoscopic pictures with viewer, picture books with sound cues on accompanying records for turning pages. But the tunes that go into the grooves have shown no basic development since Polly Put the Kettle...
That was enough for Vermont's plain-spoken Republican Senator Ralph Flanders, 76, who proceeded to sound off on what has obviously become one of his favorite topics...
...Essentially Sound." Said Director Jacobsson: "The trading position of the United Kingdom has been and continues to be essentially sound." The new "pressure was not caused by weakness in the current account, but reflected a decline in confidence." The fund's "support on a massive scale" would "effectively contribute to restoration of the strong balance-of-payments position...