Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fortnight ago, the Soviet government sent a formal protest to Washington. U.S. flyers, said the note, were dropping Colorado beetles on East German potato fields. The Estonian republic set up a people's democratic bug watch to crush the six-legged tools of Wall Street. Czechoslovakia's Red regime piped up, six days later, and said that someone had been sprinkling potato bugs on Czech fields...
Poet Viereck first noticed how common the new Babbittry had become when he returned to teach history at Harvard after World War II. "Philistinism," he realized, "had acquired a new content, a new set of conditioned reflexes. It was still mongering clichés, but the clichés had changed . . . The main activity of the new-style Philistine has become the facile game of philistine-baiting...
...transactions of 4,860,000 shares, the greatest since Sept. 5, 1939. The number of individual issues traded (1,260 out of nearly 1,500 listed) broke all records. The market kept rising the next day, but it was still so nervous that any wisp of news set it churning. On Thursday a new wave of selling started, and by day's end the industrial average was down another 7.96 points...
Declaration of Independence: Your decision to stay home with the TV set, the tall, tinkling glass and your faithful electric...
Clean Sweep. In London, thieves broke into the Avenue Hotel, made off with 4,800 cigarettes, 140 bottles of liquor, a radio set, the watchdog...