Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your systematic anticolonialism which has cost so much blood and suffering in Indonesia, your meddlesome politics and, above all, your sickening smugness are costing you many, many friends...
...made the most sense about the U.S. economy last week was Vice President Nixon. He ignored, for the moment, the economic thermometers that showed the cost of living at a new high, and unemployment compensation at a new high, too. He gave the body-economic a couple of solid thumps and came up with his prescription: some belt-tightening around the soft underbelly of business and labor, a generous dosage of self-reliance, and a faith that the U.S. Government has no intention of letting a full-scale depression develop...
...pregame contest, he threw a ball up to the 76th row of the 79-row stands before something snapped in his elbow. The team doctor prescribed rest and heat; Manager Walter Alston angrily ordered another kind of medicine. Every game Duke missed because of his horseplay, said Alston, would cost him a day's pay ($275). Next night the Duke was back in uniform, sore...
...watch the homers soar over the left-field screen that when they beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3, the Dodgers drew the largest crowd ever to watch a National League night game (60,635). With all those paying guests, the Dodgers could well afford the modest cost ($2 apiece) of all those lost balls...
...second race at Churchill Downs, Jockey Willie Hartack, aboard a maiden filly named Quail Egg, was thrown when Quail Egg reared in the starting gate, broke his left leg in the tumble. Winning on Quail Egg would have earned Willie some $200. Falling off cost him a ride on Kentucky Derby Favorite Tim Tarn, and a chance for upwards of $12,000 as his share of the purse...