Word: hones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, administrators are not pausing long to gloat over last year's achievements. While they long for the free flowing funds of the '60s, they are already anxiously scanning next year's budget, looking for more programs on which to hone their administrative...
...have to rely upon the American economic and military aid promised as part of the treaty package to fend off the radical threat. Torrijos has sent his National Guardsmen, many of them graduates of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas on Gatun Lake, on operations to hone their effectiveness against potential guerrillas. Last spring 1,000 guardsmen spent five days traversing the Isthmus. When they arrived in Colon, they were greeted by the cheers of the populace...
...puck but does not fall. George Wolbert, 56, an attorney for Shell Oil, narrowly misses a body check. These men have made their way to the Can/Am Hockey School in Guelph to play for the unvarnished joy of sport. They earn no money playing. Indeed, they pay tuition to hone their skills...
...Dave Paxton, shot a lackluster 86 but will almost certainly improve on that today. Another major ingredient if the Crimson is to overhaul Providence is freshman Jim Dales, who has been the team's hottest player of late. Dales shot an 81 yesterday but is also expected to hone...
...staunchest supporters of laissez-faire have not been too embarrassed to ask the government to bail them out of trouble. The book's title cannot be pushed too far. All ages have their unknowns and inconsistencies. If they did not, the author would find little on which to hone his wit-an effective weapon for getting at realities beneath the appearances. He notes, for example, that Adam Smith, the legendary theoretician of capitalism and unrestricted trade, ended his days as the commissioner of customs in Edinburgh. Galbraith also draws a marvelous parallel between Gogol's Dead Souls...