Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restaurants. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its consumer price index crept upward again in January, but the increase was largely the result of Florida's disastrous winter, which sharply upped fruit and vegetable prices. And the index only faintly reflected the discounts, trade-in allowances and bargain sales that have lately been trimming actual prices to consumers...
...have started running almost identical ads proclaiming an old retailing slogan: "We Will Not Be Undersold." Milwaukee's Boston Store last week advertised: "Save 22% to 50% on ... famous Westinghouse appliances." Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. now tells customers that if they can find a better bargain elsewhere, Hudson's will cut its price to match...
...girls were emotionally adrift, had no clear concept of their predestined female role. Half of them had precocious sex experiences, soon realized that sex was a commodity with which they could bargain for the longed-for emotional contact, and also for more tangible rewards. Three-fourths were above average intelligence; nearly all had ten to twelve years of schooling. One wrote songs, another designed hats, four painted, three wrote poetry, and two tried to write books...
Saturday afternoon at Holder Court, club representatives and hundreds of sophomores shivering in the icy wind stand with hands thrust in pockets or holding frigid beer cans, grouping and regrouping, talking in fast desperate undertones, trying to bargain friends into the same group, unload undesirables elsewhere, bid a sad goodby (as if parting forever) to classmates joining other clubs...
When the Western allies restored West German sovereignty in 1955, an implicit part of the bargain in allied eyes was German responsibility to help support the NATO defense troops on its soil until West Germany could provide a full-sized force of its own. Since then the German buildup has lagged; the allied troops have had to stay on but the Germans have begrudged every pfennig the allies asked for their support. When Britain presented its bill for the current year, Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss flatly refused to pay, and was backed by the Cabinet. Germany needed the money...