Word: cite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given a special com mission and/or a special job? Photographers, pharmacists, private detectives et al. get special jobs, and a lot of other people too, like Elliott Roosevelt (who worked his way up to the rank of brigadier general) .... Anyone who has been in the Army can cite cases of special preferment...
...until someone measured and found that the house would run through the side of Holworthy. Fears of cutting down space for dancing on the grass, a form of amusement prevalent at the time, ruled out several other plots, but finally, amid protests about "the noise from Harvard Square," the cite of the "Old College" was accepted...
Father Marcos' voice went on. "Since women have been women, fashions have been like earthquakes. There is no stopping them. It is absolutely useless to censure them from the pulpit . . . Can anybody cite a case of a woman who lost her faith because she wore a sleeveless dress-or of a man who lost his faith from looking at her?" The cardinal joined his hands as if in prayer...
...high as 65? a passenger mile v. an average 5½? on commercial flights. The cost can be much higher if a corporation does not dispatch the plane with all the care of a commercial airline, making sure it is in constant use. But businessmen can cite other kinds of economy, such as the case where a salesman, flown direct to a customer in a company plane, signed up a $1,000,000 order before his competition could get there on commercial lines. Planes also have become invaluable for rush deliveries. When Rynel Corp., a small Illinois metal-gear manufacturer...
Department colleagues say that George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, has a rare knack of putting people at ease. They are also quick to cite his readiness to cut red tape; or to voice an opinion on matters that displease him. Kistiakowsky has devoted most of his life to fighting those things that displease him: first the Bolsheviks, then the Nazis, and again the Communists...