Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Congress may or may not approve and which is "a special case," not to be considered "a precedent for a loan to any other country." Other countries will apply to the Export-Import Bank, which, if Congress accepts Vinson's program, will have some $3 billion to dish...
...swathed in golden chains. A golden mask covered his face. On his breast lay a jasper scarab with the inscription: "Do not betray me, O heart, on the day of judgment." Beside him, to aid him on his journey, were jeweled or golden images of his gods, and golden dishes, beautifully wrought. One dish showed a bas-relief of women swimming through lotus flowers...
...Beaver Country Day School was founded when John Dewey's ideas on progressive education were rearing their bumptious little heads. "Education generally was a pretty stale dish," recalls its headmaster. "Green mold is not limited to penicillin. Many a school has flourished in mold and called it tradition...
...appetizer, he served up some warmed-over charges that Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) had made prewar deals with Farben, that E.I. du Pont de Nemours had once been part owner of 6% of its stock (which it sold in 1940). But when Colonel Bernstein came to his main dish, it was new, and piping...
Westcott said that if a certain food was not eaten by approximately 25 per cent of the House it would be discontinued. The committee suggested this as a standard policy, and considered advocating a lowering in the percentage necessary to kill a dish...