Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done her wrong, but she soon discovers to her horror that politics is perceptibly dirtier than prostitution. The state is owned by a pawky old politician (Wilfrid Hyde White) who rules it with an iron hand-strongly magnetized to pick up loose change. When the new Governor tries to yank the old boy's hand out of the till, a bomb explodes in his car. While he is recovering, the missus serves as acting Governor, and by the time she is through acting, the rascals are out and the state remolded nearer to the tart's desire...
...Having a tiger by the tail" is the way James Joseph Ling, 38, president of Dallas' Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc., describes his business operations; if he lets go, he may be eaten. Last week, giving the tiger's tail another yank, Jim Ling used his recently acquired majority interest in Dallas' Chance Vought Corp. to merge the 44-year-old aircraft company with Ling-Temco over the protests of Chance Vought officers and other stockholders. The merger creates a Texas-based aircraft, missile and electronics complex with a backlog of $300 million in orders. Ling, who once...
...Azores," the mid-Atlantic Portuguese islands on which the U.S. Air Force maintains a vital stepping-stone base. Use of the base is governed by a bilateral agreement due to be renegotiated next year. What bothers some diplomats more is the possibility that Salazar, if pushed far enough, might yank Portugal out of NATO. But in the long run, Portugal is unlikely to desert the Western camp; Salazar needs the West as much as. or more than, the West needs...
...students of Sturdley are obsessed to an indecent degree by love of money and of security. In this situation, the usual English envy-hatred syndrome focuses upon the American undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have it. One Yank at Oxford suffers one gibe too many at American opulence, McCarthyism, U.S. football and so on, and retorts with tart justice: "At least we don't sit around talking about pension plans before we've even graduated...
When he is in the mood for Yank-baiting, no one does it with more enthusiasm than Yank-admiring Lord Beaverbrook, 81, Canadian-born proprietor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,250,000) and three other British papers. Beaverbrook's intermittent brand of anti-Americanism rests on the suspicion that the U.S. is out to reduce Britain to satellite status, has manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent...