Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lack of real U.S. help for Naguib despite a spate of kind words...
...corruption and maladministration which the Democrats bear in the current campaign was unearthed by congressional investigating committees during the 82nd Congress. The digging slacked off last spring, and it appeared that the Republican campaign would get no fresh ore from the congressional committees. Last week, however, brought a new spate of charges...
...flow of speech and the spate of words in the United Nations," he said, "are quite incredible and in time become insupportable . . . Votes are bought and sold, not for money, but by a system of bargaining which some think part of the democratic system but which I and many others think disgusting ... I say with amazement, agony and fury that millions of worthy but simple people act as if they believed that it is possible to keep the peace by words and good intentions...
...Truth. One prompt result of Churchill's words was a spate of speculation that Britain's bank balance was lower than even the bankers suspected. Pundits in the financial district wondered whether dollar reserves might fall so low that the pound would be devalued again. Cripps devalued the pound in 1949 when Britain's dollar reserves fell to $1.3 billion; they rose to $3.8 billion at the end of June 1951. By the end of last March they were down to $1.7 billion again. After Churchill's speech, the Financial Times sternly demanded "the whole truth...
...Italy. Pia herself was finally asked how she felt about it. A well-poised child with a hint of the freshly scrubbed beauty that made her mother's face world famous, Pia had graduated from junior high school only the day before. Her testimony, coming after a spate of harsh charges made by her father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, against Ingrid's present husband, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, was candid enough to set her elders straight. Judge Mildred Lillie and Ingrid's suave lawyer, Gregson Bautzer, asked the questions...