Word: catered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking Executive Chairman J. H. ("Jack") Hambro, 59, who believes that the times have passed when merchant bankers could concentrate on regal requirements. He has turned Hambros to bigger profits from a multitude of smaller ventures. "We are consciously unorthodox," says he. "Anything that concerns money we attempt to cater for." Hambros is profiting from this unorthodoxy: it has $500 million in assets, almost triple those of ten years...
Allen said he plans to cater a motion in January asking that the trial site he moved at least 100 miles from Prince Edward County. The feeling, excitement, and general situation there are such that I don't think Fred could get a fair trial...
...there on horse back with javelins. Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
This girl is not fat, but perhaps ten pounds away from her ideal weight. Tomorrow she will feel terribly guilty, and skip breakfast and maybe lunch. She is not the least bit unique: almost every Cliffie recognizes the phrase "compulsive cater" with a shiver of aorror and embarrassment...
...merchants of Central Square cater to the fundamental needs of life. Their stores, almost uniformly undistinguished, peddle the usual brands of food, clothing, furniture, and not a great deal else. Harvard people, as a rule, buy the bulk of their clothes at home and have their other necessities -- food, shelter -- provided for them by the University. So most of the things they buy in Harvard Square are, roughly speaking, luxuries. There are tobacconists, banks, bookstores, sandal shops, motorcycle dealers and bookstores...