Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a cost had Marshal von Bock thrust into the Caucasus and heaved his tank-bristling lines to the Don bend where, with seemingly inexhaustible waves of men and weapons, he was making his greatest bid for a breakthrough to Stalingrad and the Volga. At such a cost had Marshal Timoshenko kept his Red Army virtually intact, with supply lines still open to the Caucasus oilfields and munitions centers to the east. Whether the awful costs had been worth it to either, whether they could afford such expenditure of human life and weapons would be tallied only after the battle...
...Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...
...fight for their own destiny. Millions of Indians, despite promises of future self-rule, do not have the same spirit. To them the emotional appeal of freedom is greater than fear of the Jap. The British view is sound in so far as granting Indian independence is a dangerous bid for anarchy and chaos; but a bid for great popular support of the United Nations' cause in India is also sound...
...Retail price ceilings have been clapped on lamb, which was exempted last April because it was then so far below parity. When there was not enough beef and pork to go around, housewives took lamb, bid up the price so fast that Leon Henderson thought...
Boob-Thumper. Those who were surprised by Gerald Smith's audacious bid for the nomination do not know Gerald Smith. Huey Long called him a better rabble-rouser than himself, a tribute which pleased Gerald Smith as much as H. L. Mencken's appraisal of him as the "champion boob-thumper of all epochs...