Word: defaults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department store after she had bought three dozen pairs of stockings, five pairs of expensive shoes, several pieces of fancy lingerie, several pints of perfume and a quantity of bath salts-all on installment. When her husband, a railroad man, began to lose his overtime pay, she had to default and the law moved...
...This Petulant Ajax." The maneuver was almost unprecedented. Not since 1856 had a President called back Congress in an election year.* It was a daring stroke of political chicanery. For the moment, at least, Harry Truman had destroyed the notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...
...Either we shall employ our strength, power and conscience boldly and righteously in defense of human dignity and freedom or we shall waste those reserves for peace and default to the forces that breed new wars ... If the United States ever again stoops to expedients ... if we cringe from the necessity of meeting issues boldly ... if we are to scamper from crisis to crisis, fixing principles and policies to the change of each day, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at the mercy of any aggressor who might play on our public opinion and decimate our forces at will...
...must become politically more conscious. We must take our politics more seriously. If we throw our full energies into political organization and activity, the Communists will be impotent in our affairs. They could not then win by default; and it is only by default that they can gain a strategic hold on important groups in this country...
...Fayetteville, Pa., Fisherman David Carbaugh was fined exactly $533.50 for exceeding the limit on trout, in default of payment got exactly 533½ days in jail...