Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington trade marts, the payroll cuts are cause for concern. So far this year, retail trade in downtown Washington stores is running 4% under last year. Houses are not selling well, and apartment rentals are slow. Personal bank accounts have been rising steadily; Government employees, uncertain about where the ax will fall, are saving their money...
...Berlin, and enforced it with machine pistols in the railroad stations. This precipitated a war of wits: some hunger marchers bought tickets to points beyond West Berlin, then dropped off the trains to collect their food. The Reds temporarily eased up, then put the ban back on. They seemed uncertain how to act: remembering the uprisings of June 17, they dared not push their people too hard. For what people would do to get those ten pounds of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk was a measure of their desperation and dissatisfaction...
Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie, for one, was tempted to go along with Dior. Other buyers were uncertain or hostile. Snapped Adolph Schuman, president of San Francisco's Lilli Ann Corp.: "The psychology of the American woman is not ready for a change." Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman cabled his New York office to ignore the change. Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar, the doyenne of U.S. fashion arbiters, supported him. Said she: "Perfectly marvelous publicity for Dior, but you can't find any woman who wants skirts riding up around her knees...
Rural Reactionary. French nightclub singers, much easier to remember than French premiers, are possibly better guides to their country's history. There was Lucienne Boyer, who had her heyday in the uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'Amour as if Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number...
...smaller than France. Italy or West Germany. Yet there is friction. Postwar politics complicated the unity: Holland lost her colonial empire in Indonesia, Belgium grew rich on hers; the population of Holland increased rapidly, that of Belgium remained fairly static; Holland's constitutional monarchy remained steady, Belgium was uncertain about her King; the Dutch worked for low wages, the Belgians demanded high wages. When cheap Dutch goods flooded the Belgian market, Belgian industrialists complained. Full economic union, due to take place in 1950, was postponed...