Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appetites for things they do not need. The consequence of this lack of "social balance" is that production, largely in private hands, has far outdistanced services, which Galbraith seems to think are the responsibility of government. Thus there are plenty of vacuum cleaners but few street cleaners, a plethora of automobiles but no place to park. "The more goods people procure, the more trash must be carried away . . . the greater the wealth the thicker the dirt...
...years, he was appointed instructor of English in 1888. Immediately popular with the Faculty and the student body, he soon became a full professor, and in 1917 was named Gurney Professor of English, a post he held until his retirement in 1936. Although he was given a plethora of honorary degrees (from Harvard, Oxford, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Brown, Trinity, Union and Colby), he never received a Ph.D. "Who," he replied when someone asked why not, "could examine...
...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 68 member nations of the International Monetary Fund met last week to grapple with what Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece, wryly termed "numismatic plethora." The inflated phrase aptly described the basic cause of inflation-a common crisis of too much money and too few goods. Not even the Greeks had a word for the cure. Yet all knew that the fund's work in stabilizing currencies by strategic loans was one of the free world's most powerful weapons...
...also, how Mr. Norris justifies his reference to "a plethora of non-essential consumer items"? I could take exception with the rest of the sentence but the phrase "nonessential consumer items" intrigues me. I am curious to discover how he determines the essentiality of a consumer good. Not being omnipotent, I have a difficult time conceiving of anyone being able to decide what is and what is not necessary for each individual...
Republican "prosperity", then, appears compounded of such vaporous stuff as loose credit, enormous debts, immense government costs, high prices, and a plethora of nonessential consumer items. Upon these deceptive indications of illusory wealth, the GOP now seeks another four years of power. On this record of manipulated facts the Party claims National prosperity...