Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago, in the disorder that followed the Suez invasion fiasco, Great Britain was faced with such a run on the pound sterling that it asked for and got $500 million in credit from the U.S. Treasury through the Export-Import Bank. But confidence in the pound was restored so quickly that only $250 million of the money was actually borrowed-on ?300 million security posted by Britain, to be repaid at 4.5% in ten installments from 1960 to 1965. Last week, with Britain's economic rebound having turned into a full-fledged boom, and the first favorable...
...support and various privileges to authorized dependents of personnel who are on a service-directed accompanied tour of 24 months." This was hard enough to understand even for people brought up in English. But Korean wives, most of whom are married to G.I.s serving standard, 13-month tours, soon got the idea: henceforth they were to be excluded from use of the PX. An Eighth Army spokesman was tactless enough to put the point intelligibly: "Some dependents have been abusing PX privileges through black-marketing"-and with that, the Korean wives were up in arms...
...affairs," Moscow brought economic pressure to bear to destroy the coalition and succeeded in forcing the appointment of a new government from which the ministers Moscow disapproved were excluded. Hungary convinced many Finns that in any open quarrel with Russia, their country would have to fight alone. Besides, Russia got a hammer lock on the Finnish economy, or at least a half nelson, by exacting such heavy reparations after World War II that the Finns, in order to pay them, had to set up industry for which Russia is the only real market...
From the hoarse throats of 250,000 Cubans jammed before the presidential palace in Havana rose the chilling cry: "Pa-re-don! To the wall! To the firing squad!" By whipping up a frenzy of hatred, Fidel Castro last week got mob approval for a resumption of the drumhead justice that earlier put to death 551 Cubans accused as supporters of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Now the blood purge would be aimed at defectors in the band of barbudos (bearded ones) who lifted him to power, of whom hundreds are now in prison...
...three years he worked on a key trustee: Ellsworth C. Alvord, a leading Washington tax attorney and the biggest individual stockholder in General Dynamics Corp. By the time Turbeville got through with Alvord, the lawyer was a convert. By the time Alvord got through with Frank Pace Jr., chairman of General Dynamics, Pace was a dedicated Northland trustee. By this year, tiny Northland has a solid gold board that many a university might envy. Among its members : Presidential Friend George E. Allen, Publisher Gardner Cowles, Industrialist Victor Emanuel, Movie Arbiter Eric Johnston, Financier Floyd B. Odium...