Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good, because you can depend on everybody; no matter who comes into the game you know he isn't going to throw the ball away. We don't have too much set stuff, you're on you own a lot. We see who's having a good night and the ball kind of floats...
Later, Dr. Richter answered a few questions. Just what kind of explosion had he achieved? "I control the explosion," Richter replied loftily. "I can make it increase or diminish at my desire." Could the explosion be heard at any distance? Well, said the doctor, that would depend on whether there was a storm at the time. Had it been heard at San Carlos de Bariloche 6½ miles away...
...will Christianity-how will the Christian churches-meet the crisis? The answer, in large part, will depend on Bishop Sherrill and his Christian cohorts. If their united Christian effort can meet and master the challenge, Christendom may experience a rebirth of life and light that will mark an age in history...
...lighter moods & manners of the U.S., a good ear for its idioms and a graceful, often witty, style that does equally well with a New York street scene, the Fourth of July in a small town, or the look of the Kansas prairies. Britons have come to depend on his daily Guardian dispatches and his weekly recorded 15-minute BBC broadcasts ("Letter from America") for their knowledge of U.S. life outside the stereotypes (Chicago gangsters, Hollywood divorces, Senator Claghorns) purveyed by most of Britain's popular press. Cooke used the occasion of the recent atomic bomb tests to discuss...
Throughout the nation there were other arthritis sufferers in the same fix as the cashier's wife. Since the hormone was first placed on the market about four months ago, many have come to depend on it as the best source of relief for their agonies. Its virtue for the arthritic lies in continued doses, yet drugstores are stacking up piles of prescriptions for cortisone in their files and giving the customer vague promises. A Long Island druggist nostalgically recalls filling an order of 20 vials of cortisone two months ago with no trouble. Now he has none...