Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what Ike accomplished in throwing his weight into the labor-bill battle may be a lot tougher to achieve in the farm fight. For one thing, the labor bill that Ike backed seemed to offer effective remedies for the problem of labor racketeering. There is reason to doubt that Ezra Benson is offering an effective solution to the surplus-wheat problem, which follows the general line of the corn program he got written into law last year. Under that program, farmers were assured a slightly lower but still profitable Government price for all the corn they could raise. They turned...
Yankee Error. By the time he was 16, Rocky was a star for the semipro Mohawks playing out of Crotona Park, and major-league scouts were nosing about. Rocky quit high school ("baseball was the only thing I really cared about") and waited to be courted. Yankee Stadium was just a couple of miles away, and Colavito idolized Joe DiMaggio. But the Yankee scouts fretted so long about his slow running (he has inverted arches) that Cleveland got him for a cut-rate $3,000 bonus...
...getting into scrapes; even the Army had not made disciplined men of them. "They won't listen to me," Bing complained, "and it burns me up." Even his sons' attitude toward money, said the multimillionaire Groaner, seemed silly in the extreme. "It doesn't mean a thing to Gary-and Philip, Dennis and Linny are very tight, so tight it horrifies...
...five famed Rockefeller brothers. A blue-eyed, trim (180 Ibs.) six-footer, Laurance Rockefeller hardly needs more money; he is worth about $200 million. But he believes that wealthy men have a social responsibility to risk their riches, invest in inventive young companies. Says he: "I like doing constructive things with my money, rather than just trying to make more." The "constructive thing" was to put $5,000,000 into some two dozen long-shot companies since World War II. In doing so, he also made much more. The value of his stocks in the companies is now $33 million...
...modern Communist practice with an idea of the rule of law, half rediscovered"). But more and more his promises have given way to renewed repression, not only because Moscow and its Polish followers want it that way, but because Gomulka has discovered that a little liberty is a dangerous thing: "Gresham's Law is not true of political coinage - for the customs of a free society, wherever the Poles introduced them, began forthwith to drive Communist methods out . . . Where democratization inside the party was permitted, the organizations speedily fell apart...