Word: doled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alarmed. First on the House agenda was the alarming and growing slump in Britain's textile industry (see below). In the soot-stained towns of Lancashire, cotton mills by the score had shut down their looms. Said Labor M.P. Harry Hynd: "The people see the specter ... of the dole queues forming again, and the return of the soup kitchens and pawnshops...
Another Crimson football opponent will bring a new coach to Cambridge this fall: Bill Dole was this week named head man at Davidson, which plays here November...
...every afternoon. They played until 7, took time out for dinner, picked up again at 8:30 and kept going until 11 o'clock. Their game: "poverty" or "Depression" poker. Each week each player puts up $100. If he loses his hundred he continues to play on a dole, thus has a chance to win back his money and can-in any event-keep his losses to a maximum of $100 a week. Biggest bluffer: Harry Truman. Big winner: Harry Vaughan...
...Londoners' biggest shock was the discovery that most New York drivers operate one-man buses, take tickets, give transfers and dole out change. Said London with some justice: "I cahn't see 'ow 'e can attend to 'is proper job if 'e 'as to do sums...
Dave Cairns will be a slight underdog in the mile, when he faces Frank Efinger and Joe Albanese, and the Crimson's Dave Gregory will have plenty of opposition in the form of George Dole, Dan Strickler, and Bill Handelman in the two-mile event. Yale's Mike Stanley and Rollie Garofalo are heavy favorites in the 1000, although Jim Downey could break up this combination...