Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week officials triumphantly announced that the Equitable Life Assurance Society had agreed to take on the financing of a spectacular $50 million project to clear 23 acres of the Triangle's point, convert it into a park and construct three modern office buildings...
Rajk told the court in a clear voice that he would not ask for clemency. "I accept the sentence because it is just. But I disagree with the defense motion for appeal...
...Much, Too Soon? In the U.S., there was a temporary spate of bargains in British goods. Many department stores reduced their British goods, bought at old pound prices, as much as 25% to clear them out in preparation for lower prices. But many of the new prices would not be anywhere near that low, and some would not change at all. Scotch distillers, who were already selling as much whiskey to the U.S. as they could make (3,000,000 cases a year), promptly upped their export prices 30% to cancel out the entire slash in the pound. Many another...
Quest Within Quest. A Spanish squire named Alonso Quijana, "tall, lean, lanky, with cheeks that appeared to be kissing each other on the inside of his mouth, [and a] neck half a yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said...
...know its tough to find space," Captain McCarthy said, "so I'll give them a little time, but those streets have to be clear at night." He particularly mentioned the streets adjoining Mt. Auburn...