Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chances are, the sellout crowd would have come anyway. Toronto's citizens are soft touches for sports; they would have packed the Maple Leafs' ballpark for a dog show-especially one that got the magnificent ballyhoo laid down for last week's hoked-up "world heavyweight championship" squabble. The figures: that elegant gypsy, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, and Canadian Heavyweight Champion James J. Parker, otherwise known as the Saskatoon Statue...
...SELLOUT . . . THE FULL EXPOSURE OF BRITAIN'S PERIL. So read the headlines in the London Daily Express, run by crusty old (77) Lord Beaverbrook, last of the imperialists. And what was the Express so vexed about-Cyprus, Singapore, Suez? No, the deadly peril to Empire, the "mortifying and shameful act of surrender" was the British Cabinet's decision to permit The Texas Co. to buy the British-owned Trinidad...
...longer satisfied with yesterday's dominolike housing developments. Location and landscaping have become vital. In Southern Cali fornia's Orange County, long one of the state's boomingest areas, thousands of houses are going begging, while developments in the San Fernando Valley are still a sellout. One big reason is that Orange County is becoming heavily industrialized; people would rather live in pleasant, factory-free surroundings even though they may have to drive 30 miles to work. The story is the same in Atlanta, where builders are discovering that prospective buyers flock to developments in the rolling...
...point to remember for the sake of Anglo-American solidarity against the Communist stratagems is that basic elements in the Soviet and British outlook are mutually and permanently repellent. They were present in the McCarthy era when Americans were being told to be on guard against a sellout by the British to the Communists. They would be present the next time a similar strain fell on the Anglo-American relationship-and the time after that...
...fact that last week's exhibition was a near sellout was a tribute to the enduring meaning of Käthe Kollwitz' vision. For in her way, she has given a woman's view as impassioned as Goya's horror of war, one that affirms the value of the human spirit, even while it grimly insists that revolt too often ends in chains, that death must finally triumph over life...