Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lacrossemen and golfers might, then, demand the elimination of such apparently wasteful expenditure of H.A.A. funds. They might demand a tight-money policy from the Athletic Department--in the hopes that enough dollars would be saved here and there to finance the reinstatement of their sports...
...change came in 1938 when the Department of the Interior took over and gave the farmers greater control of their own affairs. Slowly, they began to make the land pay, and by 1940, when the U.S. began its big Alaskan defense buildup and servicemen created a sudden demand for fresh produce and dairy products, the Matanuskans were on their...
Though Britain refused to go along with Canada's demand for full convertibility of the pound, it did promise to wipe out restrictions on dollar-area newsprint, salmon, farm machinery. Canada in turn refused New Zealand's plea to cut down trade-inhibiting farm subsidies, but agreed to keep down tariff barriers against lamb and mutton, automobiles and aircraft. For the Commonwealth's smaller, less developed partners, Canada led a big power move to increase development aid, pour more money into the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Colombo Plan to speed progress in Asia and Africa...
...kind of words that demand to be set off in short, separate paragraphs...
...Miss Hurst is not one to resist such a demand...