Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most motel chains depend on an easily recognizable similarity to attract customers: Holiday Inns, for example, all have bright green neon signs, and Howard Johnson motor lodges feature the familiar orange roof. One chain has made a virtue of being different, though, and hardly has two establishments that are alike. It is Treadway Inns Corp., whose 28 hostels include such disparate stopovers as Nantucket's 120-year-old Jared Coffin House, once a whaler's mansion, a modern downtown motel in the Treadway headquarters town of Rochester, N.Y., and an Alpine chalet in Franconia, N.H., known...
Would you think it a sign of hopelessness if the military effort in South Vietnam came to depend wholly on American arms...
...certainly would, and I don't my self believe that there is any plan or any desire or any good sense really in supposing that this thing can be handled if it comes to depend entirely on American arms...
...Gaulle might be permanently located in one money market, Paris for example, and accredited to different governments with the rank of "Permanent Ingot." Since the monetary system would depend on world confidence in his physical existence, he might be placed on a high throne above the squealing money-traders; and, if the amount of money in circulation depended on the General's evaluation of his role in history, there would be an ever-expanding supply of currency...
...meet may depend not on Villanova and Maryland runners, but on the top runners from other schools. If St. John's enters Olympian Tommy Farrell in the 880, he's a clinch to beat Carroll. But if Farrell runs the 440, as he has been doing this spring, Carroll only has to beat the same field that trailed him in the IC4A 1000-yard...