Word: fed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just three air hours from Miami, the weekend of turmoil only topped off a chaotic political record. In the 153 years since independence, Haiti has had two emperors, one king and 30 Presidents, only two of whom peacefully turned the office over to their successors. Haitian rulers have been fed arsenic, dynamited, driven to suicide, torn to pieces...
...determines the drift and allows for it. It notes the heading from the airplane's compass. Then a computer figures automatically the latitude and longitude, the ground traveled and the deviation, if any, from the planned course. This information is displayed on dials, and it can also be fed electrically into the airplane's controls...
...with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze, I'll do as I please, just bummin' around") that sold almost a million copies...
...care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under the care of the sinister Württemberg court physician. Dr. Julius von Teuffel, who fed her a hypnotic drug called sulfonal. At this point the proliferating plot begins to evoke Bertha, The Sewing Machine Girl...
...Rate? As interest rates rose, Wall Street wondered whether the Federal Reserve System would raise its 3% rediscount rate, which for some time has been less than the short-term borrowing rate the Treasury pays. Ordinarily the Fed raises the rediscount rate to prevent "riding the rate," i.e., a member bank borrowing from the Fed to have more funds for lending at a higher rate. But member-bank borrowing last week averaged $888 million, up only $5,000,000 from the week before. Since there was no evidence that banks were riding the rate, best guess was that the Fed...