Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were crowding brokerage houses (often carrying TIME) to inquire about buying into mutual funds. One of the most heart-warming reactions came in a letter from a Missouri librarian: "Somehow the story in TIME made me glad I am an American and live in a country where I can write a letter to a busy executive and be certain that he cares about the trust of little people...
...Conrad is an even more remarkable man than your June 15 article indicates. Many years ago he tried to save a woman from walking into a turning propeller, suffered serious head injuries himself. It's still difficult for him to write, he talks hesitantly, yet has been gradually overcoming these handicaps out of sheer will power and determination...
...Change? The people, said Clark, had given the Democrats "a mandate to write a Democratic program ... I suggest it is our responsibility to write that kind of program and send it to the President today, next week, and every week until this Congress adjourns, and to come back and do it all over again at the second session." To capture the White House in 1960, Clark said, the party would need to write a Democratic record. "If the people cannot detect any difference between the parties, why should they wish to make a change...
...account by Idlout, an Eskimo from Resolute Bay, of a visit to Greenland (he was charmed by the girls); a section on Eskimo haute couture (which made the telling point that the Eskimo will freeze in the white man's garb); even two blank pages -"something to write on" - for readers who live in an area where paper is a rare and treasured commodity...
...defense contractor. Compared to the overall number of executives, there are relatively few military men in industry, and even fewer in top jobs. The great bulk of the nation's defense work is performed by civilians. If Congress uncovers abuses, it might indeed be well to write some ground rules of employment. But the lawmakers should also be careful that in the process they do not hurt the U.S. defense effort by denying it the services of many experienced and able workers...