Word: dips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sidewalks and scatter it against the weathered frame buildings. Along Brown Street, the main drag, ragged white farmers and mute Negroes sprawl on benches propped against the buildings in the shade of awnings. There is not much for them to do except read the Dothan (Ala.) Eagle or dip snuff or watch the tractors or pray for rain. There is not even a movie house in Graceville anymore, which seems like a reasonable indicator of the imminence of death...
...graduate researchers for the current school year. "You just can't tell a man to come to the university and then cut him off," protests Raymond E. Peck, a vice president of the University of Missouri. With commitments already made, the schools claim that they will have to dip into their own operating funds or endowments to keep many of the NSF projects going. The Berkeley mathematics department termed the NSF reductions "outrageous and inequitable," and issued a statement warning the university that the cutbacks would cripple its research and cause staff members to leave...
...Faculty will probably have to borrow from the University Treasury if the 1968-69 deficit is larger than $500,000, Ford said. "We either have to borrow from them," he said after the meeting, "or else dip into unrestricted endowment--and that is something that northeastern universities are notably reluctant...
Fearful of a second devaluation, many sterling-area countries this year have been busily selling off large amounts of pounds. As a result, Britain has been forced to dip into its own gold and foreign currencies to buy sterling in order to keep the pound from falling too far below its $2.40 official price in foreign exchange markets. By midyear, British reserves had shrunk to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount of pounds held by individuals and central banks in the sterling bloc alone. With huge liabilities to many other countries as well, Britain was technically insolvent...
...just very good friends," George explained. As a matter of fact, he added, she was helping him scout the latest fashions for the string of boutiques he is being forced to open in New York, California and Europe. Forced? Well, it's either that or let Uncle Sam dip heavily into all that money that he's being paid for The Survivors, his new ABC-TV series that starts this fall...