Word: borrowable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense, it was. Before he got it built he had to borrow huge sums, much of the money from a set of Detroit and Cleveland sharpies. But he fabricated his gaudy dream, kept a healthy third interest, and was still out in front as manager, diamond-studded cuff links glittering, when the last carpet was tacked down...
...taken the Army and Air Force nearly four months to set up Swarmer. The U.S. has no war headquarters to direct such mock warfare, much less run a real war. Norstad had to borrow his headquarters supply command from the New York Port of Embarkation...
...million for direct loans to World War II veterans, permitting them to borrow up to $10,000 at 4% interest for 30 years...
After asking advice from eminent friends, Boyer decided that a creative scientist must be "an all-round man, not a narrow specialist . . . This type of man is the one best able to leap barriers between fields, to borrow techniques, to synthesize new concepts." Besides many-sidedness, the productive researcher should have "the ability to see the relationship between apparently unrelated facts, the ability to appreciate the significance of the unobvious." He should have "intense curiosity combined with intense skepticism." His motivating force should be "the esthetic satisfaction he obtains in bringing order out of chaos...
...over. Before the final vote, Communist deputies put on a riotous show that was even more violent and abusive than last week's. Cracked a Foreign Office official who must attend this week's debate on ratification of the Franco-American military aid agreement: "Where could I borrow a suit of armor...