Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walker fired him in 1933 after four years of reporting because Parrish ducked a dull assignment. In 1935 an economy wave washed him off the staff of the Literary Digest. Then he got a job as editor of National Aeronautics, even though "I knew nothing about magazines and nothing about aviation." In 1937 he lost that job when his boss got the word that he was dickering with the magazine's printers to join him in starting a new magazine. Two and a half hours later he and the printers, E. J. Stackpole Jr. and A. H. Stackpole...
Britain's shoe manufacturers promptly damned the U.S. businessman's remarks as "unwarranted nonsense," and the National Union of Manufacturers loftily announced that "we have no evidence which would support his criticism." But in the subsequent wave of second thoughts, Rogers found champions among the British themselves. His criticism, said the Laborite Daily Herald, "is a scathing indictment and a challenge. Mr. Rogers knows British industry, and if it is anything like as bad as he says, it is a poor outlook unless we waken up soon." "Our declining share in the world market," the Conservative Daily Telegraph...
...enlightening article by Murray Kempton reprinted in your Sept. 3 "Judgments & Prophecies" says that Nixon ". . . had on a suit of shoddy which only the most expensive tailor could have cut to fit so badly." He "turned once to wave to Herbert Hoover to establish the true pedigree." (Which proves what? Guilt by association? And if so, guilty of what? Pro-Americanism?) Nixon "always did give the effect of having a great wad of unmelting butter stuffed next to his lower jawbone." Try to get your teeth into those facts! Perhaps it is only coincidence that this attack...
Hastily, Munshi ordered the book withdrawn from sale and tendered an official apology: "I have the greatest regard for the Prophet." But the wave of wrath rolled on through India's 36 million Moslems. From the Ganges to the Indus, Moslem villagers stabbed Hindus, looted Hindu shops, stoned Hindu temples. Hindu townspeople fought back. In industrial Jubbulpore seven Hindus, Moslems and police died and 50 were wounded in one sanguinary knifing melee. In Khamgaon rioting Hindus broke into Moslem shops and fought with police; when the police opened fire five died. Some Hindu extremists, organizing a boycott of Moslem...
...Generation. Such overoptimism worries many observers even more than rising credit. While the rate of repayment on installment loans continues at a peak, they point out, a sharp dip in employment might bring on a wave of defaults that could wash in a recession-or worse...