Word: hoard
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...door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...
...blow was struck last spring by John Maynard Keynes, First Baron Tilton, with a proposal that in effect would give the British dominance in world currency arrangements. The second was a counterproposal by Harry D. White for the U.S. Treasury, giving the U.S. the upper hand through its vast hoard of gold...
...were told to register for emergency labor service. The unbombed were urged to give their extra clothing to the bombed-out. "The war will be decided in the next few months; it is no longer necessary to hoard reserves," the solicitors explained. Agile little Joseph Goebbels told the hungry: "If you haven't enough vegetables, get' stinging nettles from the meadows...
...news was bad for Canada, worse for the U.S. Like a modern Joseph, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics warned: Canada's once-plentiful hoard of feed grain (oats and barley) had been "severely trimmed" by heavy domestic demand, exports to the U.S. Next year there will probably be little enough for Canadian livestock, let alone the U.S., which needs all the Canadian feed...
...highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...