Word: watchwords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Security" was the watchword for more than half a century in 99% of both public and private mental hospitals. Gates were guarded to prevent escapes. An attending doctor or nurse had to go through what Dr. Herman B. Snow, director at St. Lawrence, calls "the ritual of the key" to enter a building. Then, jangling a fistful of hardware, he had to repeat the ritual at the door of every ward, at every staircase and elevator. That this security fetish is an illusion is shown by St. Lawrence's experience: it never had many escapes compared with most hospitals...
Clutching his robust, rosy-faced companion by a lapel last week, Baltimore's lame-duck Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. grunted a political watchword through the haze and hubbub of an election-night hotel room. Said Tommy: "Be humble, Harold, be as humble as you can when you say it." Nodding politely, J. (for Joseph) Harold Grady, 42, retrieved his lapel, rushed off to deliver his televised victory statement. Grady had small reason to be humble. Two months earlier, in only his second campaign, he had knocked off wily Three-Termer D'Alesandro for mayor...
...Chicago last week. The Tokyo gathering was dominated by restless non-white Christians, who reproached their white brethren for racial prejudice (see below). On the surface, the Chicago meeting of the International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom* seemed designed to meet just such reproaches, for its watchword was tolerance. Yet, as its delegates spelled out just what they meant by liberalism, their version of an irreproachable Christanity began to look to many a Christian like nothing but a pallid imitation of the real thing...
...election year-and Adams warned his senior staffers that some evidently improper requests had come to the White House from congressional sources. "We are all fair game," he announced. Adams feared that the Democrats might try to trap the White House by planting a scandal during the campaign. The watchword was handed out: prudence...
...power behind today's boom is a completely new approach to private flying. Instead of designing planes for pleasure, the industry designs them for work. "Utility" is the new watchword. With rugged aircraft to match every purpose and pocketbook, the industry has made it highly profitable for many a company-and thousands of individuals-to take to the air (see color pages). Big farmers and ranchers, such as Idaho's R. J. Simplot, who needs three planes to supervise his many farming operations and other interests, are learning that they cannot get along without planes. Using them...