Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collapsed, a well blew out and started a quarter-million-dollar fire. McCarthy invaded the Palacios district, sank $700,000 in leases, a million dollars in equipment, drilled five disappointing wells at once and went broke. By the time his mansion was built he was $1,500,000 in debt...
...want our resources developed. We want our children to have health, education, and social security-but for how long can we have any kind of security with a partner who runs up a $5.1 billion deficit in one fiscal year? Confronted with a total national debt in 1952 of $263.8 billion, the taxpayers should worry -although "it seemed to worry the President hardly...
Pretty Much Alike. "Of course," added Booth, "I don't think this is good business for the Government, but a man's foolish not to take advantage of it, isn't he?" Farmer Booth was worried about the Government and "all that debt." Said he: "My advice to the people in Washington is to stop spending so much money. They don't spend it, they squander it. They squander part of it on the farmers ... but the farmers figure if they squander for everybody we might as well get our share because...
...Zilboorg and published in the U.S. in 1924. Orwell read it in a French translation in 1946 and wrote an enthusiastic review of it in London's weekly Tribune, of which he was then literary editor. Orwell's is the better book in every way, but his debt to We is quickly apparent. In the Russian's novel the characters live in glass houses where state agents can watch them; in 1984 they are spied on by "telescreen." Zamiatin's dictator, the Benefactor, is a counterpart of Orwell's Big Brother. In both, a love...
From his filthy headquarters on the Thames waterfront, a shed where he is vainly struggling with a mural of The Fall, Gulley sallies forth to bleed the rich like an impecunious vampire ("Artists," he says, "owe a debt to millionaires that can never be repaid, except in cash"). His only lucky break comes when he invades the swank apartment of a holidaying rich man and, after jimmying the food closets and the wine cellar and pawning the silver service, dreamily proceeds to daub The Raising of Lazarus on the wall over the antique sideboard. But in two ticks Gulley himself...