Word: dearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes, at $2.50 a throw. For him it wasn't exactly a steal. He paid $175,000 for it at a Princeton, Mass., auction, making it the most expensive used car in history, dearer even than Adolf Hitler's Mercedes 770-K, which went to a Pennsylvania amusement-park owner for $153,000 last January...
...said immediately after the trial, "at no time that I have held public office have I taken any advantage I have been in many battles where life itself was at stake. This battle is more important than life itself because it involves my reputation and honor which are dearer than life itself, and I intend to continue this battle...
...Dearer for Two. Some increases seem clearly illegal. Retail prices of seven cuts of meat that are subject to controls have risen substantially in New York City, according to a state-government survey. For instance, porterhouse steak climbed from a pre-freeze high of $1.99 a pound to $2.09. Last week freeze-enforcing Internal Revenue Service agents found only negligible meat violations; possibly shopkeepers had been alerted by the well-publicized study. Another study disclosed even larger jumps in some fish prices. Halibut steak soared 25%, to $1.49 a pound...
Such pronouncements are not taken lightly in the land where Tennyson once advised a recent bride that she could consider herself fortunate if her husband treated her as "something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." Queen Victoria, an early champion of the society, declared that "no civilization can be complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures." By her standards, Britain has reached Utopia...