Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chapultepec, the nations of the Western Hemisphere agreed to meet soon thereafter at Rio de Janeiro for two purposes: 1) to draft the treaty for the Act of Chapultepec (which was a wartime agreement); 2) to discuss an inter-hemispheric defense agreement under which the U.S. would undertake to furnish standardized arms to all Western Hemisphere nations. So far, Spruille Braden, unwilling to let Argentina in, has refused to set a date for it. Until that conference is held, Latins will still be skeptical of genuine U.S. good-neighborliness, and confused by U.S. policy. And until Secretary of State Byrnes...
...will look something like an older Terry ("I'll never mention his age") but, says Caniff, there's a difference: "Steve Canyon's been around . . . this guy might have been in love a dozen times." Steve's aviation taxi service covers the globe (slogan: "You furnish the reason, we'll furnish the ride"). Caniff gave his hero a roving job so that he could work in all the exotic backgrounds he wants; after a "decent interval," Steve Canyon can even go to Terry's China, on which Caniff-who has never been there...
Parties and informal entertainments were sharply curtailed due to the inflation and Yale Game pinch. Some enterprising individuals in the river Houses managed to furnish enough watered Scotch and sherry for token Thanksgiving celebration...
...election proved anything, it has proved the factuousness of the Democratic hope of salvaging victory by playing tweedledum to the Republicans' tweedledee. With such figures as Henry Cabot Lodge, William Stratton and John W. Bricker representing the majority party in the Congress, the democratic party can furnish an effective opposition only by reassuming its liberal character and discarding the leadership of Bourbon Democrats and myopic members of the Truman coterie...
...roommates Albert L. Key 2nd '50 and David M. Key, Jr. '49, were still unable yesterday to furnish any positive information on West's favorite beer tap. "He always kept one of them completely secret from us," David Key admitted, "and we never were able to find out where...