Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat was turned up under the simmering political pots in New York and they began to boil. The machine-run nominating conventions were only a couple of weeks off. It was getting closer to the time when top politicos would have to pick their men, pass the word to the rank-&-file...
With the words, "I refuse to comment further on politics because I don't want to get my father defeated in the next election," Miss Maybank brought the interview closer to Harvard Square. A Government major, she is faced with the dismal prospect of having slept through the Gov 9 exam, but thinks "the instructor is very cute." As for Gov I, she allowed. "I just love Professor Elliott,--Yandell, that is. I think he's wonderful...
...domestic front, which is closer though not less important to Britons, Bevin's counterpart is Herbert Morrison. To him goes the credit and the blame for what Labor did and did not do to raise the lives of Britons above the level most of them had come to consider intolerable. The British electorate, being human, would judge the Labor Party by how much food and clothes and fun Herbert Morrison managed to get for them, rather than by how loudly Ernie Bevin's voice boomed out in international councils...
Last week the Hungarian inflation came far closer to needing evaluation by googol than any other inflation in history. The pengo was quoted at 500.000,000,000,000,000,000 to the dollar. At that point the Finance Ministry withdrew it from circulation, replaced it by something called the "index pengo," at 6,500,000 to the dollar. If the ordinary pengo had merely added a zero a day for another 80 days, it would have passed the googol...
...rule; plans to cut up big estates and increase agricultural production had been balked by rightists who still controlled banks and social security funds. The present murderous inflation had spawned a new group of profiteering capitalists, cushioned the old ones, and driven Chile's miserable rotos (ragged ones) closer to starvation than ever...