Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed that the Senators were working without a script. There was Senator Tobey ("He has a nervous trick of making dainty thrusts with his cigaret ... as though he were giving the hot foot to invisible pixies"). There was Wendell Willkie, counsel for the motion-picture industry, who upset the proceedings at the start. Denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, Lawyer Willkie jumped the gun with a 2,600-word blast defending the industry, attacking the legality of the Committee, and pointing grimly at the anti-Semitism he found in the proceedings...
...long war in Asia has upset the traditional pattern of rice distribution. Lack of manpower and successive crop shortages have, since 1939, made Japan a major importer. Last year's emergency need for almost 2,000,000 tons of imported rice (a record figure, one-seventh of Japan's total consumption) was part of the urge that made her seize Indo-China. That need led to such abnormally large Japanese overseas purchases that Thailand placed export restrictions on rice, Burmese politicians urged similar action on their Government...
...China, the internal equalization of surplus and deficit areas has been upset by war. In Chungking, which formerly drew its rice from battle-pocked Hunan via the Yangtze, black-market prices of rice were 30 times pre-war prices last spring. Last year, to make matters worse, Szechwan, Chiang Kai-shek's base province, had a crop failure. Its yield fell off almost 50%. To prevent hoarding, to make certain of Army and urban rice supplies, Chiang's Government this summer decided to collect the land tax in grain (almost exclusively rice), not money. With a better...
...make a living in New York if I have to-but I don't have to." In 1908, for one peso (50?), he bought name, good will and subscription list of a defunct weekly. In the beginning he was its entire editorial and business staff. He upset the American colony (and once was threatened with deportation) because he insisted on giving Filipinos their just dues in U.S.-Filipino squabbles. But the Free Press soon gained a respectful audience...
...docile wife and an unsatisfactory setter. His generation was bothered by taxes, the New Deal, and the encroachment of the big city and its Sunday panzer divisions. Park's generation was bothered, intermittently, by the prospect that the war might reduce its scale of living or upset its weekly routine-mild drinking on week nights, tennis, golf and horses on weekends, heavy drinking, dancing and flirtation on Saturday nights, recuperation Sundays on the beach, where no serious conversation was permitted...