Word: garnishment
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...property, agents had had to scurry as far afield as Rio de Janeiro, and had had to garnish their cash with promises. Example: one owner, who pocketed a certified check for $250,000, wanted to remain on his job as elevator operator as long as his building stayed...
...flat and join the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens). Thus begins their vacation from marriage. It ends some three years later in a transformation which may not strike hardened cinemaddicts as particularly surprising. But the picture holds together nicely, and without the customary Hollywood glue, goo and garnish...
...Popular Japanese seafood recipe: take a slab of amanori (baked, compressed seaweed), spread with boiled rice and strips of meat. Roll like a jelly roll, cut into transverse slices. Garnish with ginger...
...formal order, to be issued very soon, will forbid the use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum in nonfunctional automobile parts. These are the principal materials in the huge shiny grilles, glistening hub caps and sparkling trim which garnish the 1942 models. An important exception: bumpers, tagged "functional" after an acrimonious Government-industry semantic fight...
...well balanced in other subjects and the interest groups are fairly all-inclusive. In contrast to the other Houses there is no regular tutors table, the tutors circulating through the dining room. Also there are no regular House diners though on frequent occasions informal speakers serve to provide garnish to the evening meal...