Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not "pour money down a rat hole." There is never any use in pledging financial outlays abroad until we are satisfied that it is not a mere hold-up game or a last minute rescue party, and until we are sure that fundamental steps have actually been taken which will change the situation permanently for the better. No nation-and certainly not the United States-is rich enough to be strong everywhere at once. No nation is rich enough ever to splurge money recklessly. There is a limit; we must pick the place where we can properly influence...
...both meant that she was in his opinion a woman of the streets. The girl got her car into gear, backed it out, drove ahead of the Buick and then went into reverse. There was a horrible crunch, but she had aimed badly. Now her Oldsmobile had a big hole in the trunk; the Buick was intact...
Proposal of Marriage. Rank has still another ace in the hole. If Hollywood should not give him all he feels he is entitled to, the Board of Trade might conceivably cut the quota of U.S. pictures allowed in Britain (now a fat 80% of all pictures shown). At this prospect, Hollywood shudders. The U.S. movie industry last year made $75 million-at least 35% of its income and almost all of its profits-in the British market. Without that market, Hollywood could not afford to spend the millions it does on a single picture. For his part, Rank made only...
Coach Bill Barclay's statement that yesterday's encounter "couldn't have been closer" was made clear by the way the Crimson took the first four matches neatly. Only a couple of missed 18th hole putts prevented them from taking any one of the remaining events...
...lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...