Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Briggs will face a combined Whitman-Eliot team for the intramural field hockey championship Monday on the Quad. Yesterday, Whitman-Eliot beat Cabot 2 to 0, scoring both goals in five minutes overtime. Briggs is ahead by default over the off-campus houses...
...doing? In three weeks he has become Egypt's Indispensable man. Rarely in history has so much power been won with so little effort. Starting out to purge Egypt's army, Naguib became Egypt's ruler; vowing a distaste for politics, he has become through default his country's leading politician. Last week the reluctant ruler had the enthusiastic sanction of the people and the press, the anxious respect of the politicians, and the hopeful if sluggish attention of the Western powers...
Purpose of Visit: To size up the U.S., which by default is becoming the No. 1 power in the Middle East. Washington, for its part, wants to give young Feisal a favorable and unforgettable impression of the U.S. before he ascends the throne next May and is boxed in by anti-U.S. advisers...
...engine balked again and quit. In the face of such universal bad luck, Stanley Dollar carefully crept (heat speed: 84.35 m.p.h.) through the last seven laps alone, prayerfully "counted every lap." If Slo-mo IV had fallen out, Miss Pepsi would have been the winner by default. But Dollar's hydroplane held up: the surviving boat won the Gold...
...most complicated problem started in 1933, when Germany began to default on interest payments on state, municipal and corporate bonds. To give her a breather, President Hoover arranged a moratorium on all payments in 1931. Shortly after, Adolf Hitler repudiated the whole debt; he charged that it was caused by reparations and was one of the injustices of the Versailles Treaty.* As the market value of German bonds tumbled, Hitler's agents quietly bought up blocks of them at fractions of their par value, stored them away in Berlin. When World War II broke, the U.S. suspended trading...