Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consideration is going through minor inconvenience to the disproportionate relief or aid of someone else. A considerate able-bodied man or woman will give up his or her seat in a public bus to a pregnant woman because she can make better use of it. A considerate person will hold open the door for another whose arms are full, because it is an easy thing to do--much easier in terms of total convenience than forcing the carrier to drop his load, open the door by himself, pick up his load and proceed. A considerate student will go to class...
...Carter wanted to hold off, for some practical as well as political reasons. He wants to appear in his presidential role as long as possible before he descends into the political arena. And if he became an active candidate, his presidential trips might be ruled campaign excursions. Then he would have to pay for them out of his own funds. So rather than make an immediate announcement, the strategy group decided on holding a Carter rally in Washington in late October. Some 200 "Democratic heavies" would attend, White House aides said -a risky undertaking if lots of the heavies stay...
Carter's promises to balance the budget (world record: most daring fiscal pronouncement) and not to import an additional barrel of oil (U.S. record: optimism) have put him in embarrassing binds. So did his pledge to hold all those news conferences, which were designed to break some kind of record and shame the reclusive Nixon...
Though some compute the value of their hoards at less than market prices, any rise in those prices does lift the amount of a nation's reserves. Says Economist Robert Triffin, an international monetary expert: "Central banks now hold on their books assets that are ten times as valuable as they were in 1969. They can theoretically use these assets." In effect, wealth can be created out of nothing: the gold can either be sold to cover trade deficits or borrowed against...
...bombshell: Yanks is nothing more and nothing less than an extravagant soap opera about star-crossed lovers on the British home front during World War II. The results are often entertaining, but only for audiences who are prepared to open their tear ducts and put their brains on hold. Admirers of Schlesinger's weightier efforts-Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday-should trim their sails accordingly...