Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment (11:33 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 4) when Wilhelmina dotted the second i of her bold signature at the solemn abdication ceremony in Amsterdam's Royal Palace, The Netherlands' Queen was her auburn-haired, 39-year-old daughter Juliana. By her own choice, Wilhelmina had become merely a dowager Princess of The Netherlands...
...Hugh and daughter-in-law Dorothy are bold enough to criticize Grandma's work. Hugh wanted her to leave a recent landscape empty of figures, and she promised she would, "But the next thing I knew 'twas full of people. I had to fill it up. I guess I wanted company, some commotion." Her daughter-in-law says Grandma's interest in painting is what keeps her young. Grandma disagrees. "I don't know as it done any more good than if I went down and cleaned the cellar...
...economic expert in China saw the program as a bold, brave effort to pull the nation out of its desperate economic slough. But the issue of new currency would have to be backed by honest and efficient execution of the rest of the government's promised fiscal reform, which would hit many of China's privileged where it hurt...
...Bold Effort. For eight days the Gimo had pondered, on the cool heights of Kuling, what he might do to save China from deepening disaster. Last week he flew back to sweltering Nanking with his answer-a program of fiscal reform to combat runaway inflation. China would have a new dollar, called the gold yuan, backed by $200 million worth of gold and silver and U.S. dollars. The fantastically depreciated old Chinese dollars must be traded in, at the rate of 12 million old for one new. The government pledged itself not to print more than 2 billion...
...this point, only the incurably partisan and the bold were making any bets on who would play in the World Series...