Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official U.S. answer to the question, as expressed by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson in the name of President Truman, was a flat no. But by last week it was plain that a more accurate and honest answer would have been: "No-for the time being." Western military leaders and planners are agreed that some sort of army for the new West German Republic is essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been...
...election night in New Zealand, the flat voices of radio announcers reported the people's choice. The broadcasts came from state-owned radio stations; thousands of New Zealanders heard the news in the comfort of state-owned houses, and even the partially deaf listened with hearing aids provided by the state. Many of the welfare state's supporters and beneficiaries could hardly believe their ears: after 14 years of Socialist government, New Zealand had had enough...
Humanitarians & Bureaucrats. For more than half a century, under various parties, insular New Zealand, with its butter and mutton economy, has been an experimental laboratory for welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...
...violate the College's basic Simple-Simon format. Remembering the one disastrous show that resulted when he took his wife's advice, Kyser says firmly: "It's only when you try to get too professional and want to class it up that you fall flat on your face...
Texas, Li'l Darlin1 (book by John Whedon & Sam Moore; produced by Studio Productions, Inc. & Anthony Brady Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...