Word: thankfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death of the old-fashioned list price, the U.S. businessman has largely himself to thank. In the days of postwar shortages, the oldtime salesman gave way to mere order-takers, who sold only on the basis of price. And since the "list price" often differs widely from store to store, customers have lost faith in quoted prices, trust only in their own ability to haggle like shoppers in an Oriental bazaar. Says Aubra Johnston of Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The so-called manufacturer's list price is for the most part baloney. The manufacturer inflates because...
...office. Now a paunchy, balding diabetic of 53. he walked with Kidnaper Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy to the office of Warden Joseph Ragen. Said Ragen to Prisoner 9306-D : "Leopold, you and Touhy have been granted paroles." Breathed Nathan Leopold, the nation's most publicized convict: "Thank the Lord it's all over...
Balance of Peace. "I am more concerned over the Japanese situation than almost any other," T.R. said after the Treaty of Portsmouth. "Thank heaven we have the Navy in good shape." Into the White House trickled a stream of intelligence reports that Japan was preparing to attack the Philippines, or Panama, or both, indicating, too, that many European powers were not averse to balancing off new Japan against the emergent might...
...came from Lady Churchill, who beamed: "He is very well, thank you," as she took a turn in the villa garden Friday morning. "Very definite improvement," confirmed the day's bulletin, said to have been edited by the great man himself. At week's end. Sir Winston was smoking two cigars a day, "handling a considerable volume of correspondence," and threatening to go out painting. "You'll see," he growled at a member of his household. "I'll be out with brushes before any of you think I will...
...hard, protective shell of ignorance secreted by the blacks. The novel's story is of a family festering in such a shell, built of fear and blind religiosity. Don't ask questions, Cille's mother repeats, walling in her children. Don't think; thank...