Word: zigzags
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...support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...
...Word. In Derby, Conn., Peter Ciesielski, arrested after a onehour, zigzag chase by two patrol cars, said: "The Lord told me not to stop. He just told me to keep going and everything would be all right...
...convincingly in a manner suited to the solemn occasion. Among them, at the table before John Hancock, stand John Adams, Roger Sherman. Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The painting is a set piece, but Trumbull succeeded in conveying something of its suppressed excitement in the zigzag arrangement of heads and the winglike banners at the back...
...current debate, the Federal Reserve feels that some industrialists are trying to use FRB as a convenient whipping boy for every economic zigzag. But FRB also sees signs that its credit medicine is working effectively. Such sensitive barometers as daily spot-commodity prices have been edging downward, especially in scrap steel and copper. Furthermore, the volatile money market seems to be adjusting to the new climate after a sharp flare-up in April immediately following the latest hike in discount rates to Federal Reserve member banks. Interest rates on short-term (up to 90 days) Treasury bills, which jumped from...
...Administration's 1956 farm program. Despite his opposition to high, rigid price supports, he has been willing to promise a firm 82.5% of parity on most basic crops in an effort to prevent Congress from passing a rigid 90% bill. Having learned the politic art of zigzag, he can be philosophical about it. At staff meetings, he has been heard to crack, somewhat ruefully, about "rising above principle...