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...linden and oak symbolized Old Germany, the emblem today is the Gummibaum (rubber plant), whose leaves luxuriate in the central heating of millions of spanking-new apartments. The nation has no motto; Gott mit Uns went the way of the spiked helmet, and the closest thing to a watchword in a devoutly neat country is "Vorsicht! Frisch Gebohnert" (Careful! Freshly Waxed). Well-to-do Germans are drinking more heavily, apparently to fight the frustrations of wealth; sociologists speak of Wohlstandsalkoholismus-prosperity alcoholism...
...these issues lie not only the clues to public reaction against Powers and his printers, but the growing national dissatisfaction with Big Labor itself. For "job security" has become labor's watchword. In 1961 (the last year on which statistics are available), there were 250 strikes in which job security was a central issue. It is a crucial issue in the aerospace industry. The argument over the size of work gangs brought on the recent East Coast dock strike. The job-security issue last year caused flight engineers to strike against the airlines, and job security is a cause...
...professional author Arthur Orrmont, carries the reader through the early, swashbuckling advances of the White cossacks and the supporting British fighter squadron with which Aten flew. His book catches the enthusiasm which swept across the anti-Communist armies and which made the toast "Christmas in Moscow" a Cossack watchword. And finally, the dream shattered and the Communist counter-offensive moving forward irrevocably, Aten's narrative makes up the ghastly retreat to the Black Sea and the eventual evacuation of Allied forces from under the guns of the Bolshevik advance guard...
...press pictures with his breakfast guests on the north portico of the White House, the President turned to Illinois' Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, wagged a finger, and publicly laid down a challenge to congressional Democrats. "Remember." said Ike, "one-third and one - that's the watchword." Translation: to defeat Democratic spending programs, the President did not need majorities in Congress; all he needed was one-third of the votes plus one vote, in either the Senate or the House, to uphold his vetoes...
...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...