Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to congratulate itself for carrying out the largest and most generous effort in the world's history. But now it seemed that those five billions would not be enough. Great Britain had got the lion's share of ECA help; now she wanted at least an extra half billion this year. There were official hints that a stabilizing fund was necessary to save the pound. No sooner was the North Atlantic Treaty ratified than there was a demand for a billion and a half in arms aid. Where would...
...King was delighted. He called the Amethyst's escape a "daring exploit," personally ordered the frigate's crew to "splice the mainbrace"-break out an extra order of grog for all hands. In Shanghai, the Communist press ignored the Amethyst's escape completely. Shanghai British celebrated discreetly. "We're glad they're out of it," said one, "but there's no point in crowing over it. After all, we're still here...
...Dopolavoro (workers' recreation society) tried to turn it into an organized political celebration. "One year," recalls Housewife Felicetta Gaudenzi, "they brought a Negro all the way from Abyssinia to stand at the entrance to the bridge. You paid so much, and you punched him. Then, unless you paid extra, he punched you back...
...Workers' hardheaded Mike Quill cut off transportation for 1,250,000 New York bus riders. Ignoring a no-strike pledge he made only two weeks ago, and blandly passing over the original excuse for the strike, Quill threatened to keep the boys out until he got them an extra 21? an hour, a 40-hour week and a whole string of pension and welfare concessions...
...cushions. When not being wagged, beards could be carried in a velvet bag (as was one 16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra blanket or could be screwed into a portable press for an overnight permanent. In short, as bearded Burl Ives remarks on the jacket of Beards: "Every man should try one. They grow...