Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controversial rise in postal rates (which could be gobbled up by postal wage rises ). The Administration also assumes that there will be no extraordinary and unexpected defense spending-the very factor that caused the 1962 deficit. Most members of Congress feel that budget expenditures in 1963 will fetch up closer to $95 billion, with revenues running a few billion behind...
Modern ambassadors administer vast arsenals of peaceful weapons: food, loans, technical assistance-and in crisis, their advice to the government back home can even fetch battleships and airplanes. But words and opportunities remain the basic armament of diplomacy. In an age when heads of state can conveniently meet face to face, when foreign ministers crisscross the globe like soldier ants, when lies as well as truth travel with the speed of thought, it is still the ambassadors in every world capital who must explain their governments' policies to friends and foes, restrain the hasty, encourage the weak...
Presumably to show that it meant business, the military then ordered all leading politicians to straighten matters out expeditiously at a meeting in the presidential palace in Ankara; when Peasant-and-Nation Party Leader Osman Bolukbasi failed to show up, an armed party was sent to fetch...
...Corduroy Pants. Bert Fellows has sold his farm for $1,200 to Abe Mitchell, whom he has known all his life. But two weeks after the sale, Bert remembers that he has left his other pair of pants in the farmhouse attic. He asks Abe to let him fetch the pants, but Abe, although the pants are too big for him, will not let go of the windfall...
...embassy here in charge of Edward R. Murrow"-and went on spraying in all directions: "Our cars are different. You know, clocks up front and in back-different time zones." Turning Soviet-American relations into a latter-day bestiary, he noted that "our dogs are affectionate and can fetch newspapers. Russian dogs don't show affection, but they are all engineers." Getting around to women, he reached for a rare pun, said: "Women are getting more and more materialistic, always looking for security. They are saying, 'This is the way the world ends, not with a whim...