Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most Rhodesians are a little bit cynical about what the West is going to do. After the failure of the Kissinger [initiative], we don't trust these chaps who bluff us and then ask us to believe them. We were given a firm, binding contract and we agreed to it. We got a message of confirmation from Dr. Kissinger. We were assured that the British government was party to this. Also the "front line" [African] Presidents. You know what subsequently happened: they started backing out of it, one by one. If that agreement had been implemented, I think...
...began her fight for meaty roles that would lift her out of the overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
George B. Field, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, who also spoke at the forum, said he believed the universe might not expand forever, but might begin to fall in on itself and contract to the size of an electron...
...luxury of a permanent endowment" means the PSIA will not have to do "job shop" contract studies for the government or rely on "soft" outside annual grants, Jackson said...
Relatively speaking, athletes receiving the big money are worth every cent of their contract. The profits that once went to the owners are now rerouted to the players, the source of that income. The fans, the public, and the media must accept baseball as the full-fledged entertainment business it has become, a business controlled by the rulers of hamburger, whiskey, chewing gum, lumber, and brewery empires. Fans should not condemn the players for demanding and receiving a larger measure of the revenue they themselves generate. As Judge Frank said in 1949, "Only the totalitarian-minded will believe that high...