Word: badness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turnabout. White Wednesday was a good day for Ezra Taft Benson, who has had many bad days in the past seven years (and will doubtless have plenty of them in the year ahead). Home from the hospital, he pored happily over the news from Iowa. Out in Chicago at its yearly convention, the staunchly Republican, 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring...
...Bad Buy. The officer caste, drawn traditionally from the middle class and poorer gentility, splurges fortunes on such status symbols as Caracas' $10 million officers' club, the marble-and-gilt Circulo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Early retirement is a huge drain on treasuries. Argentina has 20,000 retired officers v. 10,000 on active duty; Brazil's out-to-pasture list includes 1,500 generals and 38 field marshals...
After refusing to write new life insurance for generations of heart-disease victims, the insurance industry is catching up with newer medical thinking: these patients are not necessarily such bad risks as they were once rated. But the penalty premiums are still steep: a man of 50 who has done well for 13 months after a heart attack must pay annually $100 to $125 per $1,000 of insurance as against $40 for a man in full health. The penalty drops with longevity: at 60, he may be paying only $15 to $20 additional. Last week, physicians for the Equitable...
...Bad Godesberg, Saarbruecken and Cologne, Algerians have been gunned to death in the street. In every case the attackers got away...
...were type-cast with amazing accuracy, and most of the Broadway players are there in the Hollywood production. The show's score (words by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul) is the big letdown: a chance to make good mountain music is passed up in favor of bad Broadway tunes. But the story gallops along, and the dancing scenes preserve the essential whomp. They'll love it in Lower Slobbovia...