Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courage and surpassing leadership, faced the gravest crisis of his regime: the consequences of a weakened France could take the heart out of the Western alliance. Deeper in Africa, the strivings for independence, however prepared the newly free might be, had taken on a decisive undertone that could no longer be ignored. Tension in the Middle East, in the Caribbean, along the Himalaya frontier of the free world, in the great spread of awakening Africans, all emphasized the fact that the affairs of the world are the affairs of the U.S., and that the issues of the U.S. political campaign...
...himself was still there on the sidelines, refusing to campaign but admittedly available in case of a convention draft. The loyal, devoted, hopeful friends of 1952 and 1956 were still loyal and devoted-but no longer very hopeful. By last week Democratic politicos and amateurs alike were generally writing off Adlai Stevenson as a serious possibility for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination...
...already had a psychological effect. The stock market is also afraid of tight money, with its nipping effect on many areas, notably housing starts; yet the squeeze appears to be easing. Moreover, if the Administration does get its surplus, interest rates would probably drop, since the Treasury would no longer have to go to the market to raise new money...
Ford Motor Co. this week unveiled its second entry in the compact car market and the sixth U.S. compact car: the Comet. Planned as the successor to the defunct Edsel, the Comet is longer (wheelbase: 114 in.) than most other compacts, will sell at less than $100 above the Falcon. Ford hustled to get it out because the compact car market is proving to be the hottest thing that has happened to Detroit in years...
...easing was partly seasonal due to the post-Christmas payments to banks by retailers and others who had borrowed to finance their inventories. But Treasury experts also see longer-term influences at work, notably the fact that the demand for credit since the steel strike ended has not been so big as anticipated...