Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boost its U.S. exports, which it favors far more than trading with Red China. But last week, as Congress began hearings on extension of the reciprocal-trade act (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), prospects were that exports to the U.S. will be cut rather than raised. To plead their case, ten gentlemen from Japan called upon U.S. officials in Washington to tell them about what is happening to the little town of Tsu-bame-and thereby told a tale of how even a small U.S. tariff change can bring economic disaster abroad...
...whole, than the images connected with the respective Harvard houses. Thus, the campus "doers" or activity men are apt to be found in Cap and Gown or Quadrangle, and athletes tend to turn up, according to their inmost natures, either in Tiger Inn, the lair of "the gentlemen jocks," or in Cannon, home of "the sweaty ones." The captain of this year's football team, however, is in Ivy, which always has its pick of the entire class...
Premier Félix Gaillard summoned newsmen to an impromptu conference one night last week and greeted them with a broad smile: "Gentlemen, good news at last. A corner of blue has opened in the sky for France. We are delivered from the nightmare in which we have been living for many months." Gaillard had just learned that his emissary Jean Monnet, France's most famed advocate of European unity, was coming home from Washington bearing $655 million in credits...
...That, gentlemen, is not the way to prepare for war. If we had an effective central planning body acting as a staff to our Commander in Chief, digesting all of these things, putting them into their relative framework, and out of it producing a program for the country, that program, when approved by the Commander in Chief, would in my opinion have the loyalty of every service, and the bickering would stop...
...Chilean match 1-0, but the Simonov team scored by making agreements to exchange teachers with Chile, to send copies of all books printed by Moscow University in return for copies of a single Chilean literary magazine, to send the Moscow Dramatic Theater for a visit in 1959. "Gentlemen, make your petitions," said Culture Chief Chugonov jovially. "We will try to satisfy them." Meanwhile, in Paris, the ambassadors of the two countries got together and agreed, subject to President Carlos Ibañez approval, to sell 20,000 tons of Chilean copper wire to Russia...