Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their way to work, Tokyo citizens read the news, mostly from billboards slapped up around the city by newspapers. To Westerners, their faces showed nothing. The predominant sentiment expressed was "Hotto shita ne"-which, colloquially, means "I'm glad it's all over...
Tacho held back and sulked, mumbling defensively about the Legion. But when the investigators, who had flown around Costa Rica with Junta President José Figueres and President-elect Otilio Ulate, moved on to Nicaragua, Tacho was in his best form. Beaming warmly, he poured out explanations and complaints...
...army of 25,000 to 30,000 (at present 17,187), built around an Arctic-trained airborne brigade, with an armored brigade "if possible...
Practically everybody who wanted a job had one. Almost everybody was taking home more dollars each week than ever before. Nearly all business indexes were hovering around their high marks. But the curves on the wall charts in executive and sales offices were flattening out. And if allowances were made for the decreased buying power of the dollar (9.3% less than a year ago), many lines of business showed a drop in the actual volume of goods handled...
...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...