Word: attachment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balance of trade shows more exports than imports, we have been accustomed in years past to call it a "favorable" balance. It is obviously an imbecility to attach the word "favorable" to a situation in which the outgo exceeds the income. No man would call that situation favorable in his private business or his personal accounts. It is unfavorable...
...unbelievable performance had run longer than most Broadway plays. But last week, after eight months of boorish judge-baiting, earsplitting objections, and windy Marxist double talk, the eleven top Communist leaders charged with conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the Government finally ended their defense testimony. Weary court attachés guessed that the case would go to the jury within the next three weeks...
Death in a Flue. Not all masters were so "humane." Phillips cites, among many others, the case of Master Joseph Rae who, after an eleven-year-old apprentice had tried for five hours to free himself from a narrow flue, "sent another apprentice up the flue to attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left...
Latin American military attachés in Washington were down in the dumps last week. After all the fine talk since war's end about U.S. arms for the Americas, the news had leaked out that the Truman Administration's arms program would leave the Good Neighbors out in the cold...
Rise & Fall. Even the highpressure labor-attachè program had failed to get results. With special expense accounts and special credentials from President Peròn, the attaches (who were sent to 50 countries) were usually the fanciest spenders and most zealous propaganda-pushers at any Argentine embassy. It was a labor attache who thought up the stunt of having Eva Peròn send clothing to needy Washington schoolchildren. Scores of labor leaders were sent on paid-up junkets to see the New Argentina. But the drive to build up a Peronista hemispheric labor federation came to nothing...