Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work. Few officials will admit that such influence exists, although it is part & parcel of the Governments patronage system. Only last month Defense Secretary Louis Johnson denounced the five-percenters and denied that influence counted at all; anybody, he said, could get a federal contract with the right bid...
...masters dubbed them "democratic personages," decked them in cool blue summer uniforms, then directed them to a preparatory conference for a "people's congress" and "coalition government." Best guess as to the Red timetable: by late August the "New Democracy" would be ready for formal launching and a bid for the world's diplomatic recognition...
...Elis, making a frantic, bid to end 13 consecutive defeats over the New London course, have imitated Curwen's (and Coach Tom Bolles') rowing style this year, abandoning their high stroking style of previous seasons. Both crews will probably row most of the race at a 30 to 31 beat, although Yale will force it up higher for the finish...
...gold-leafed piano (cost: $15,000) that once tinkled in the high-type bagnio run by the Everleigh sisters in Chicago (TIME, Sept. 27), was bid in for $95 by their biographer, Charles Washburn, at a Manhattan auction...
...said that "in any sort of weather, she works on all the while, until she's raked together, a tidy little pile."*Because her father liked to employ titled Europeans as footmen and office boys, Alice had acquired a rather low opinion of continental coronets ("You bid the right amount-you own a duke or count...