Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Hodge, actress-daughter of the late Actor William Hodge (The Man from Home), took a moonlight dip at splashy Saratoga Springs without giving it even a first thought. In the small hours, after a long halt at a nightclub table, a couple of male acquaintances had taken to scuffling over the question of whether to go to bed early or late. Miss Hodge stepped into it and shortly was pushed into one of the fanciest ornamental fountain pools in all Saratoga...
...Union Oil Co. of California showed net earnings of $3,806,117 (v. $5,374,730 for the first six months of 1945). U.S. Steel had to dip into its reserves for $28,299,808 and apply a tax credit of $7,300,000 in order to show a profit of $24,138,541 for the first half of 1946 (v. a $32,153,373 profit in the same period of last year...
Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine
...wife do the campaigning. Last week he got some help from the U.S. Congress: the Senate upped the Philippine sugar quota; the House passed a bill that would give the Philippines $620,000,000 for rehabilitation. The Philippine economy had improved; the cost of living had taken a moderate dip...
...ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...