Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potatoes & Toad. Nonetheless, the two sisters have always been fast friends. Margaret's bubbling imagination and great self-assurance have been a buoy for Elizabeth's shy conscientiousness; dutiful Elizabeth has been a steady rock for mercurial Margaret. When Elizabeth at eleven became a Girl Guide, she insisted that Margaret be enlisted too. The younger sister was signed up as a Brownie, Leprechaun division...
...skipper set out. for Dunkirk with just "a series of courses penciled on the back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...
...Profits which are so high that they cannot be absorbed by investment, remain unspent and reduce consumer purchasing power," he explained. Keyser-ling also noted that the spending of war time savings, reconversion investments, and European aid buoy up the economy temporarily, but warned that a severe depression was inevitable unless income distribution is improved...
...same salad appears almost every noon out of the central kitchen. It is not really a salad at all, but just plain chopped up lettuce. Merely leaving it whole once in a while, or throwing in a cucumber, would buoy the spirits of the dinners. Boiled potatoes doubtless easy to prepare--also appear too often. A potato costs no more mashed than boiled. Why not mash it once in a while...
...Lunarium. Yet the older Adams grew, the more he soured and the louder became his mocking. "I bob like a buoy in a seasick ocean," he complained. "I flop and paddle about in my own hyper-spaces. . . . The whole thing here looks like a general Lunarium. ... A queer Byzantine world, it is, and a pure waste of life to live...