Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the purse pinches tightly enough to choke a struggling tutorial program, the extravagance of an expendable advisory system should not be allowed. Granting that functions such as study help, course guidance, and even aid in personal problems should be provided by the University, the advisory system has shown itself by popular consensus to be relatively unsuited to this sort of work. Yet the average lowest paid advisor makes four hundred dollars a year for his task--based on a flat rate of twenty dollars per student. If this money were diverted to extend tutorial, admittedly invaluable in the social...
...Enough. In Denver, a spring-fevered columnist tested an old metaphor, concluded that it takes a roll of exactly 158 one-dollar bills to choke a horse...
...Grant and Miss Smith, credit them with not wincing once while mouthing dialogue that would choke Mr. Arbuthnot. Also in the hapless cast are caustic Monty Wooley and warbling Ginny Simms, both of whom work hard and reasonably effectively throughout the film...
...appointment of Keen Johnson, ex-Governor of Kentucky, from a $35,000-a-year public relations job to a $10,000 post as Under Secretary of Labor (TIME, Aug. 12) set the stage for appeasing the A.F.L. The choice, made with Schwellenbach's approval, also appeared to choke off the longtime ambition of White House Adviser Steelman to succeed the hapless...
...rough sailing, set his course to the prevailing winds. The word from the White House last week was that the President would try to stay out of political controversy, try to keep out of the news, make few trips, do little campaigning. He would also make efforts to choke off unseemly intra-administration rows, once more allow the nation to feel that it was moving in peace & calm...