Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spendthrift. On the day Lord wrote, Argentina's total gold and foreign exchange dropped below the amount of money in circulation, for the first time in eight years, Argentina, which had been fat with the profits of selling foodstuffs to a hungry world, had splurged like the most reckless Argentine playboy. A U.S. machinery salesman who had hoped to sell the Argentine Government 20 units was amazed when he easily sold 400, is still trying to figure out how the Government can use them...
...General Lord suggested to Perón that one way of easing the situation might be to invite foreign capital to help the Plan Quinqnenal. His urging was believed to be partly responsible for last week's lifting by the Central Bank of all restrictions against the entry of foreign capital into Argentina. There was even talk of seeking a U.S. loan. For Peron, this remedy would have a bitter taste. He has boasted that by the end of his six-year term "not an inch of soil, not a breath of air" in Argentina would be alien-owned...
...creator of this latter day Water Music is a short, jumpy Tin Pan Alleyite named Frank Loesser, who has a remarkable talent for tunes that at first attract and then nauseate. His biggest hit was Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; another song of his, Tallahassee, is climbing on the hit parade...
...being kept waiting by England's haughty Henry Cotton, retaliated by playing so deliberately that the match was nearly night-foundered. But, the story goes, when Locke himself was upbraided by a fellow South African for being an hour late for dinner with an English lord, he retorted: "I am Bobby Locke...
...began with a salute to the flag and the Lord's Prayer. Then Miss McKinney started classes. While she taught one grade, boys & girls in other grades did "busy work" at their desks ("I have no trouble keeping them quiet. They want to learn"). At lunchtime, she and her pupils spread out their vacuum bottles and sandwiches at a long table and ate together. In the afternoon there were more classes, and then sports. Since Miss McKinney never had enough students for two baseball teams, she played first base for both sides ("I'm better at fielding than...