Word: thrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brooding, sulky and largely inarticulate, practically everything in France is wrong. The bright hopes of the Liberation have tarnished rapidly. The promising young politicians who led France to freedom have become part of the sticky, self-perpetuating system. Since World War II money has been inflated so badly that thrift is no longer considered a virtue. The army lost face in 1940 and lost its cadres in Indo-China. Patriotism became meaningless during the appeasement days of the '30s, has since been shouted into hollowness by Communists and diehard nationalists. The national economy has been cemented into an immobile...
...White House was at pains to explain that, with Taftman Hollister in charge, the program had a better chance of overcoming growing congressional resistance to foreign spending. The Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star glowed with pride, certain that to Hollister, "thrift is more than a word." But newsmen had trouble getting an answer to their key question: Is Hollister for or against foreign...
...inconsistencies of team-written dictionaries. If "hit the nail on the head" appears in one half of his book he makes sure that dar en el clavo appears in the other. Nor does he make the mistake of treating greed and greediness under one entry, while placing thrift and thriftiness...
...Crippling controls have been lifted from the backs of the American worker, consumer and businessman, while inflation has been halted, thrift put into federal operations and efficiency brought to Government." What remains to be done? In Teaneck, N.J. Nixon gave some answers. From a Republican Congress, he foresaw...
...that it was hard to tell whether they were kind or fierce. "Have you et?" he demanded gruffly. The boys said yes. "Have you watered?" They said yes. Then all three started off to the farm on foot. Once outside town, grandfather stopped and took off his boots-"for thrift," as he explained, since they were the only pair he had-and walked the rest of the way barefoot...