Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dailies showed that the biggest-circulation newspapers, the Laborite Daily Mirror and the right-wing Daily Express, gave election material less than 6% of their total news space. *Noting with approval that Churchill had himself won a $14,000 libel suit against the Sunday People (TIME, Oct. 22), Evelyn Waugh wrote in the Spectator last week: "No one who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever be at a loss for words which would be both opprobrious...
...romp, the judges had no choice but to give her the title. "We've got a real champion this year," said Magnate Maytag, who was delighted with the way Roz had cleaned up his course. "She doesn't have to apologize to anyone." Said Owner Jim Waugh. who got his champion sight unseen in a trade: "She's a hunting fool...
Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some esoteric military order but merely for Dirty Old Man. It is all a long way from W.M.B.-the White Man's Burden of the great, dead Kipling days...
Early in World War II a character called Alistair Digby-Vane-Trumpington (in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags) asked his wife if she would mind if he joined the Commandos: "They have special knives and Tommy guns and knuckle-dusters; they wear rope-soled shoes...
...upturn? A "decisive" factor, explained Agriculture's Economist Frederick V. Waugh, was "government programs," e.g., the Administration-sponsored soil bank, which last September began to pay farmers to withdraw 12 million acres from production and put them to soil-conserving measures. The figures bore him out: of the 1956 rise-$400 million over last year's $11.3 billion-some $250 million is from soil-bank payments. Next year, when up to 45 million acres are to be set aside, the payments will be that much higher, and so should be the cut in the surplus. The hope...