Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rifle for Christmas-provided that his first target would be our TV set. The bargain was duly carried out. His grades have improved ; he spends more time in our workshop; and none of us miss the delights of television in the slightest degree. Want to borrow our rifle, anyone...
...four movements of this suite contain some of his most exquisite writing, such as the shimmering muted violins in "La Fileuse" and the tinges of modal harmony in "Mort de Melisande." Everything here is achieved through understatement, through minute shadings within a restrained gamut. The resulting "parfum imperissable," to borrow the title of one of Faure's songs, is perfectly suited to the evocative gentleness of Maeterlinck's great Symbolist play; it is, if I may indulge in oxymoron, music of cool warmth. Such music as this demands an extraordinarily nuanced performance from every player; yet all came through with...
MORTGAGE HELP is coming from Congress. While Senate is considering boost, House voted a $500 million increase in amount Federal National Mortgage Assn. can borrow from Treasury to buy U.S.-insured mortgages from private lenders. Bill will tide over Fannie Mae until June 30, by which time Eisenhower Administration hopes to hike agency's borrowing power by $1 billion...
...best laugh of the evening," chirped one spectator. "It should have been on the show." Chances are that it was-or will be. The laugh was captured on tape for Desilu Productions' library of canned laughter, from which the sound tracks of the company's shows can borrow anything from a solitary snicker to waves of mass hilarity...
Another sign of easing is that bank loans and bank investments dropped by $2.3 billion in January, as businessmen lived off their inventories and postponed marginal expansion plans rather than borrow heavily at high interest rates. In addition, January also brought a sharper than seasonal liquidation of bank credit, in which heavy repayments of loans more than wiped out a big credit increase in December...