Word: gain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bane enough to car owners without the curse of the parking ordinance. The ban is no use to the firemen; it means nothing more than extra work for the Police Department; for students it is the last straw. There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages and parking lots...
Russia stood to gain from her atom bomb if it scared Europe's people into clamoring for appeasement of Communism, but the West itself stood to gain more: a new clarity of common purpose. The atom bomb in Russian hands was something so ominously specific that it was almost certain to impel a brand of Western unity which otherwise might be years in the forging. Plain common peril might be translated into plain common courage. Moscow's atom-smashing made obsolete no major part of a political strategy that embraced the Atlantic pact, U.S. military aid to Europe...
...long run, however, the success of this year's Union Committee depends on the Class of '53. Its members must do the electing, and those elected will find serving a full-time job. Committeemen become leaders and gain useful experience for their labor, but they may be voted out of office if they miss meetings or go on probation, and they cannot campaign for other class offices...
...turning golden brown far ahead of normal time. Goodhue had a new tractor and corn picker. The price was high, "but a fellow can pay for it easier than he could ten years ago," said Goodhue. Certainly a fellow could in Iowa, which last year reported the biggest gain in personal income (33%) of any state...
...Ricardo, the liberal judge who wanted to see "a democracy in the Locke tradition." But Don Ricardo sounded mild to Carlos after the young man fell in with some of San Marcos' parlor radicals. One of them, a sottish and oracular Scot, explained to him why radicalism would gain a hold among the Indians: "And rrrememberr also, Carries, the Bolsheviks may not be rrright, but they prrresent a hope. To the rrragged and the hungrry and the sick of hearrt they prrresent a hope!" Carlos remembered it a long time, especially after the dictator's police threw...