Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receives in wages and benefits. By comparison, total compensation back in 1950 amounted to $1.91. Be sides a three-year pay increase of 440, the new pact calls for broadly improved pensions, a new $30-a-week vacation bonus and an eighth paid holiday. The two sides agreed to submit one of the thorniest problems, a union demand for expanded incentive pay, to arbitration. For the 400,000 steelworkers affected, the contract was especially lucrative when compared with the wage-and-benefit gains of about 3.5% won in the last steel negotiations in 1965. Since then, the Johnson Administration...
...issue certificates of deposit, or repatriate Eurodollars from its branches overseas. If it is a member of the Federal Reserve System, it can also appeal to "the lender of last resort"-the system's discount window. The price is high. Besides paying interest, currently 51%, the bank must submit to scrutiny that is even closer than usual. As a result, only 1% of credit extended to the banks has been passing through the Fed's discount window in recent years...
...which brings us in a round-about sort of way to The Champagne Murders (Le Scandale), a wonderful film by Claude Chabrol which I submit to you, over the hisses of Wednesday night's audience at the Harvard Square, as the best film yet released in 1968. Chabrol, whose Les Coursins is famous as one of the first accomplished works to emerge from the French nouvelle vague, has had a troubled career resembling Lang's and Welles's. The films after Les Cousins grew increasingly serious, tended toward morbidity, and lost both money and the critics. In order to keep...
...prize ceremonies Enderby is courted by Vesta Bainbridge, features editor of a women's magazine and unscrupulous conversion-monger for the Catholic Church. Soon after, Vesta marries the hapless Enderby and carts him off to the Holy City, where, after several unsuccessful attempts, he at last appears to submit to a basic convention...
There is a savage joy in yielding oneself up to Rhetoric. As the flinging (over-embracing) phrases roll out one is only too willing to submit to the force that drives them, the force of eloquence, of excitement, of head-busting grandeur. For an instant (it should not be for more than an instant for that is the way to Demagoguery) the literal truth of a statement is submerged in its origiastic flow of energy. An artist cannot be called irresponsible if he is galloping and pretty...