Word: choosier
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Insurance companies are also getting choosier about which motorists to insure, often dropping clients on grounds that may be actuarially sound but strike many as capricious. A Nashville man's policy was canceled when his insurer discovered he had been arrested for shooting craps back in 1951; Cincinnati Salesman Vaughn L. Cunningham, 70, was washed out following a $150 claim-his second claim since...
These techniques particularly suit plays, like The Caretaker, treating the incapacity for action. Nothing really happens in the play. An aged derelict, a beggar who preserves the fiction of being a choosier, is taken in by a young man trying to fix up an apartment building owned by his brother...
...nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...
With this assorted alliance. Premier de Gasperi won decisively last time because the issue was basic and clear: De Gasperi or Communism. In this election the Christian Democrats cannot count on the same urgent fear of the Red menace; Italians may have become choosier, and the alternatives are more numerous...
...People probably were never choosier. They're looking for 'glamor' jobs in the so-called 'glamor plants.' No more ordinary factory surroundings for them. They're used to music and news broadcasts and de luxe cafeterias. And they've heard so much about the wonderful times ahead . . . that they're willing to wait...