Word: borrowable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Lucas' father stopped sending money during his college pre-med course, the boy borrowed; and when he failed to borrow enough, he married for money-not much money, and not, by his standards, much of a woman. Kristina was a well-built Swedish girl from Minnesota who had read nothing, talked and dressed like an immigrant, and called him "Lu-key." But she was the head operating-room nurse at the university hospital, and she loved Luke in spite of all his inhuman fanaticism for his career. She put him through medical school. For Luke...
...which hundreds of Scouts have learned about camping, handicrafts and the dangers of litterbugging and vandalism. In Sacramento. Calif., he not only started a museum but a pet library as well. Today, the museum keeps 237 hamsters, rats, snakes, guinea pigs, squirrels, rabbits and turtles which children can borrow for a week at a time...
...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
Early next year, said Budget Director Joseph Dodge, Congress will have to raise the debt limit. In the meantime, said he, the Government could probably borrow beyond the limit because Congress has passed appropriations for the next few years which could easily compel government spending beyond the present debt limit. But, he added, nobody in the Administration wants to do that because "people might not like the bonds...
Treasury Secretary George Humphrey took advantage of easier credit conditions last week to borrow some money cheaply and move a step forward in his program of "stretching out" the national debt. He also put the debt within $400 million of the $275 billion ceiling...