Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government for the past decade has tried to cope with this situation by means of what C.E.D. calls a ''protectionist approach"-a web of price supports and production controls designed to keep farm incomes up and output down (TIME, June 29). But this approach has failed: despite the burdensome costs of U.S. farm programs, farm incomes have lagged substantially behind the growth of U.S. per capita income...
...argument that has rattled on in Britain since Henry VIII is that Britain should not associate with predominantly Roman Catholic Western Europe; the Free Church of Scotland has specifically warned members against the sinister "web of Rome." Another criticism of British membership is that under Common Market guarantees of free movement, the Anglo-Saxon shores will be invaded by hordes of immigrants from the Continent, competing for jobs and living space...
...habits, too-and one evening last March, FBI agents came to his house and arrested him. Last week he was free on bail, but his empire had collapsed, and he was under indictment on charges of fraud and theft. West Texas was swarming with investigators trying to untangle a web of deceit, fraud and corruption that stretched the 1,500 taut miles to Washington. One major discovery about Billie Sol was that the guesses about the size of his fortune had been fantastically inaccurate; far from being worth $150 million, or even $1 million, he was something like $12 million...
...factor in taking steam out of the bill's opposition is that President Kennedy, master of the political "art of the possible," has mixed his freer-trade pigments with some protectionist coloration. He placated the textile industry, which can influence many a member of Congress, by negotiating a web of "voluntary" quotas on foreign textile exports to the U.S.-and the new trade bill, bold in its thrust against tariffs, conspicuously fails to make any dent in quotas or other nontariff trade restrictions...
There's one thing your fine article on web offset [March 16] has done-taken the mystery out of the offset process. Our 19 newspapers are now changing over to offset. Since we have been working on the transition, one of our editors came up with a line describing the chaos when a paper changes over: "At the outset, there was an upset over the onset of offset." I think that describes what is going on in the newspaper business all over the country...