Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps, fountains of water, and old flowering shrubs." He also 'recommends drastic changes inside the buildings. Noss says the Japanese are repelled by a minister who "wears a frock-coat sort of dress, and often walks about the church chancel in his stocking feet." He would have ministers borrow "the clean and flowing blue-and-white robes of the Shinto priests." Bible translations are in language that the average Japanese does not understand...
...each player in international trade-unlike poker-has to use some of his own chips, valuable only in his own home.) The purpose of the pot is to enable any player, who temporarily needs the chips of an other, to shove in more of his own in order to borrow an equivalent value in the chips of the other...
...together For a conference on wampum In the forest of New Hampshire, Came the prophets of the nations, Foremost in their craft and wisdom. . . . Keynes urged, "Be not slave to wampum, Throw away the truss of wampum, Start a fund for prudent lending, That all tribes of men may borrow, Each get credit from the other, Using anything for wampum, Sterling, beads or even fishbones." Morgenthau, the Chief of Wall Street, Tighter strapped the belt of wampum, "My world bank for reconstruction Must be on a wampum basis." So they reasoned as they wrestled, While they both exclaimed together...
Paramount didn't borrow Warner's Bogart for a part that Bogart might have filled and they have done better with MacMurray who isn't quite so stony. Bogart makes a good detective, a good thug, and a good martyr, but the boy with the light comedy past comes through with the best performance of his career...
...without paving the way for Montgomery, making defeat in the west more certain. The 20-odd divisions committed to rear-guard action in Italy might have made the difference if they had been shifted to Russia, but it was too late for that now. And the Nazis could not borrow from other sectors of the Russian front itself without openly inviting the Reds to walk through...