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...region that had subsisted on corn and cotton, Lone Star was a godsend. "I grew up in this town," said one Daingerfield resident. "I can remember when maybe one or two mule-drawn wagons would come to town a day. We were dead before E. B. Germany and Lone Star." Along with booming payrolls. Lone Star sponsored baton-twirling classes for girls, baseball clinics for boys, professional workshops for teachers and ministers. Employees were married and buried from a chapel at the plant...
...apartments" to house 10,000,000 Soviet citizens. The government is making a real effort to catch up on the nation's desperate housing shortage, and though the acres of new mass housing are bleak in design, cramped in individual space, and shoddy in workmanship, they are a godsend to lucky tenants...
...picnic takes place on the go-acre estate of one "Pop" Larkin (Paul Douglas), a beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'd like to look at your books," says tight-lipped Tony, the perfect black-shoe bureaucrat. Douglas looks puzzled. "I don't do much reading," he replies. But Tony forges ahead, deeper and deeper into a slough of Southern hospitality...
Happy was the Interior Department last month when Stanford W. Barton offered to undertake the biggest Indian land development of all time. The friendly Missourian, a dabbler in uranium and alfalfa, was a godsend to the Indian Affairs Bureau officials. They signed him up just one day before expiration of an act enabling Interior to lease 67,000 parched Arizona acres with the expectation of turning them into a desert garden for some 1,500 Mojave and Chemehuevi tribesmen, who would get the land back in 25 years. As first installment on the $28 million deal, which promised handsome profits...
...Peter Lind Hayes, who is substituting on his morning radio and TV shows. Peter occasionally let viewers hear the familiar adenoidal wheeze: "It looks bloop bleep like Wyoming. It's 123 degrees. You get headaches from the heat. But boy, that Bufferin [a sponsor] has been a godsend. By George, it's wonderful...