Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much investment capital away from the soft British pound and the French franc, captured many overseas customers that other European nations would like to have. Great Britain is in the forefront in demanding German revaluation. Britain's gold and dollar reserves dropped $225 million in August. the biggest dip since the Suez crisis, and its deficit with the European payments union reached $178 million (compared with West Germany's fat surplus of $280 million). The rush to turn pounds into marks has been so great that Britain had to spend scarce dollars to support the pound to keep...
...week the argument was bubbling at a fast boil. In a lengthy study, the American Institute of Management took aim at the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp., all inside directors, reported that the 15 members voted themselves nearly $5,500,000 in bonuses last year despite a $19 million dip in Bethlehem's profits. Said A.I.M., arguing that such bonuses might be better spent elsewhere: in too many cases of inside boards, "small stockowners who constitute the majority of investors have little recourse except to follow the rough old rule: 'If you don't like what...
...prewar graces are gone. Over the pea-green waters of the 500-year-old, moss-and lichen-encrusted Imperial Moat, big-winged black butterflies flutter languidly. Within the Imperial Palace grounds (visited by 700,000 Japanese yearly) swarms of graceful scarlet dragonflies dip and glitter in the sunshine. In tiny rock gardens behind the bamboo walls of private homes, artificial fountains gurgle, and tiny bells tinkle to the slightest breeze. Traffic cops, sweating in their summer khakis, pause to admire carefully arranged clusters of chrysanthemums set in their dusty control stations, sip glasses of hot green tea to keep cool...
Chips off the Block. Later the soldiers sold the King's blood to those who wished to dip their handkerchiefs in it, sold bits of his hair and chips of the block. The embalmer, sewing the King's head to his body, remarked: "I have sewn on the head of a goose." Charles had died trying to forgive his enemies, and almost surely even these last indignities, could he have foreseen them, would not have led him to approve the revenge taken by followers of Charles II years later. The body of Lord Protector Cromwell...
...music of the '203. For sad scenes, an accordionist played Poor Butterfly. But in the picture, Kim proves more kitten than tigress; her tempests rattle not even a teacup. Happily for her admirers, this indifferently fictionalized cinememoir reveals more of Kim than ever before; shedding for a midnight dip with her lover (Jeff Chandler), or wiggling proficiently through a hootchy-kootchy dance in the carnival he runs, she shows that her extraordinary complexion is just as good all over. No matter how art may suffer, all should work out nicely at the box office...