Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word 'shortfall.' The word is used to indicate the difference between the amount estimated and the amount received, when such difference is on the wrong side. Such a word is no doubt needed, and Chancellors of the Exchequer, no less than the rest of us, find frequent occasions for its employment. 'Deficit' does not quite meet the case, and in previous years Chancellors have had to fall back on some long circumlocution. Nevertheless, if Mr. Churchill's word be an invention (for all we know, it may have been imported from America-though we have...
...year-old Ruth Alice Crawshaw, a former Navy nurse, was both grief-stricken and indignant when she got the report. To everyone who would listen, she told what a devoted husband and father Crawshaw had been. She pointed out that her husband suffered from stomach ulcers and had frequent attacks of violent nausea. Her theory was that he had fallen overboard while standing at the ship's railing during one of these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow got no Government insurance. Neither she nor her daughter would receive...
...Sudan jointly with Egypt, was signed by El Nahas Pasha himself, and hailed by him as a step toward Egyptian independence. It gave Britain the right to keep naval facilities at Alexandria and Port Said, and to station troops around the Suez Canal; it also repeated Britain's frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments. In the 18603 and 18703, Egyptian Khedive Ismail, a gusty, grandiose ruler who had a harem...
...night and wonder if one's husband will come back safely in the morning." Of all whites, the police are most hated by the blacks. Next come the Pass Office officials, then the state-employed railwaymen. These are the whites with whom the blacks come into most frequent and most painful contact. At railway stations and on trains, blacks are joyfully cuffed about by low-paid whites...
...same day Linden in a key engagement downed Hollis-Stoughton in a closely fought duel, 5-4. This game was one of the hardest fought of the entire season, with frequent cries of pique and dudgeon permeating the vesperian...