Word: welters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Senator Karl Mundt introduced an amendment that would have prohibited the use of the Export-Import Bank to guarantee Russian payments to commercial traders in the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal. That threatened to throw the aid bill or the wheat deal-or both-back into a welter of confusion and conflict. Only under the urging of both Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen did Mundt finally agree to withdraw his amendment and to submit it later as separate legislation...
...last year's Three Studies for a Crucifixion, a motif he has been studying since 1931, Bacon painted a triptych more than 14 ft. wide with enigmatic figures and bony carcasses looming in red oval rooms. The central panel contains a kneaded corpse lying in bed amidst a welter of congealed gore. There is no more overt Christian symbolism than that every man can find himself martyred meaninglessly. And the source of Bacon's idea is no mystery: two widely publicized sex murders took place in London shortly before he painted...
...nglinge (West German Radio-Cologne Electronic Studios; Deutsche Grammophon) comes on like the launching of a thousand spaceships and fades out like a souped-up sound track for Hitchcock's The Birds; it happens to be the most communicative example of electronic music yet recorded. Midst a welter of high-decibel cacophony, the voice of a boy soprano speaks...
Confusing Welter. The decision to back down came from the U.S. State Department, to which the worried CAB had turned for guidance. Both quickly drew the wrath of Washington Democrat Warren G. Magnuson and his Senate Commerce Committee, which summoned CAB Chairman Alan Boyd to account for the retreat. Boyd explained that though the CAB lacked the power to set international air fares, he had hoped to block the fare rise by winning away enough foreign lines to isolate the British. "In retrospect," he admitted, "you could say we were not smart...
Other airlines flying the North Atlantic, most of which are losing money, want simply to be able to collect more money from those who do fly. Actually, all the airlines make a play for the low fare trade, but do it through a confusing welter of promotional gimmicks such as special charter fares, discounts, 17-day excursions, family plans and group fares. More and more passengers take the cheaper way when they can, through such transparent devices as joining a "club" that does little more than qualify them for a bargain trip...