Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great markets of La Villette, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, reeked as usual with the gore of freshly slaughtered livestock. Nearly a thousand butchers, ruddy-faced and cheerful, lounged about waiting for the clang of the heavy iron bell to call them into the slaughterhouses, to bid for the fresh carcasses of 800 oxen and cows, 1,000 calves, and 1,500 sheep...
Four pairs of bridge experts, chosen by their play in College-wide competition, will bid and contract on a nation-wide level this afternoon as Harvard's entry in the annual, intercollegiate bridge tournament...
...oral pact made in 1941 between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King had treated Canada like a 49th state in sharing scarce commodities-especially oil and steel. Last week, in a speech in New York City, Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S., made a bold bid for perpetual preference...
...Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last bid for "lasting settlement" with Russia. He was not up to his oratorical form, but grim earnestness was in his words. Said...
...Orleans' Sugar Bowl, Texas put on an aerial circus that fooled Alabama, 27 to 7. Afterwards, the owners of two pro football teams (Chicago Bears and Baltimore Colts) were on hand to bid for Quarterback Bobby Layne, whose passes ruined Alabama...