Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast does everything it possibly can to buoy things up. Stephen Elliott's God is a bull-roaring cosmic paterfamilias and Bob Dishy as Adam is playfully endearing as a man whose innocence has been tampered with. As Eve, Australian-born Zoe Caldwell suffers from an imperial sibilance in her delivery, which somehow implies that the Garden of Eden was the first British colony. George Grizzard's Lucifer is best of all, a celestial Richard III combining a ravenous appetite for power with silky glints of mischief...
International rowing powers like New Zealand and East Germany have long used the individual selection process, and Olympic (and Harvard) crew coach Harry Parker hopes that the new approach will buoy the United States's chances...
...officials prepared to charge fees instead of paying interest for short-term foreign-currency deposits. This would guard against an outbreak of speculation should the dollar begin to sink in the weeks ahead. As the week progressed, that plan hardly seemed necessary. With the Swiss Central Bank poised to buoy up the price of the dollar if it fell below an undisclosed "base level," the Swiss franc merely wobbled fretfully anywhere from 1.2% to 2.8% above its normal dollar exchange rate. In Paris, where a complex two-tier system separates fixed-rate international trade and business dollars from tourist...
...that nothing is impossible," says Mrs. Kevin McManus, secretary-treasurer of the National League. "It's a tremendous boost. People do care now." Many wives take the Son Tay raid as an overdue sign of concern on the part of the U.S. Government; they also feel that it will buoy the morale of their imprisoned husbands. No one, however, is quite sure just how the prisoners will find out about the raid, for Hanoi has not specifically mentioned the rescue mission...