Word: downhold
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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From Virginia's Langley Air Force Base came evidence that the downhold has reached to smaller items. Ruled Deputy Base Commander Harold P. Sparks: street lights will stay off at night, air conditioners must be shut down, motor vehicles left unwashed, pencils and paper clips ordered only by emergency requisition. Moreover, announced Colonel Sparks, patrons at the base commissary were requested to return paper shopping bags for reuse...
Lest it somehow be dimmed by unexpected reform, the U.P.'s reputation for pinching the penny is affectionately kept alive by an ever-expanding organization of U.P. alumni called The Downhold Club -an echo of the constant warnings to "downhold" expenses that emanate from U.P.'s headquarters in the New York Daily News building...