Word: buoying
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That spot of brilliance seemed to dim the fresh lake and vermilion on the adjoining Waterloo Bridge. Constable snorted to a friend: "Turner has been here and fired a gun!" Two days later, Turner deftly turned the impromptu daub into a red buoy that can still be seen floating on his grey...
During years when crops are poor or demand runs high--as in 1946 or 1947--prices naturally stay well above "parity" (the calculated fair price for a commodity). A support program needs only to buoy up farm income during unfavorable years when farm prices drop in comparison with the rest of the economy, so that farmers can earn enough to pay for supplies and labor...
Since the plot idea is, among other things, remarkably wholesome, Taylor felt called upon to spice it for Broadway. The ugly head of sex does not rear, it is dragged in by the playwright with gusto. Obvious burlesque material does not buoy a sinking script, however, it merely brings the level down a little further...
After months of tortuous indecision, a French government was at action stations last week. The order: buoy up the nation's economy. With each succeeding day (including Sunday), the government sinks $6,000,000 deeper into the red. Millifranc notes are pouring from the government printing presses to float government payrolls, but soon the inflation must be plugged or the economy will be in danger of foundering...
...Harvard Dramatic Club left the well-trodden field of Othello with creditable success, marred only by the lead's unfortunate ineptness. Richard Heffron, in the title role, was more of a weight than a buoy to the show. Playing his early scenes in a sullen monotone, he gave no hint of a character that could erupt into uxoricide. Then, in his big scenes, he abandoned himself to steady roaring, without climaxes or the delicate shading that devides the complete amateur from the budding professional. As a result, Othello was without depth, a man of stock motions, trite passions...