Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will serve in a pinch) to the hospital right away. There, the old-fashioned stomach pump is still the mainstay of treatment...
Captain Frank Lombardi will start for the varsity at scrum-half, with Larry Boise and Joe Conzelman supporting the wing positions. Woody Simpson and John Nichols will provide the mainstay of the Crimson defense...
...loan for $125 to paint a house, repair the roof and install a water tank. Since then, the agency has insured mortgages on 3,940,000 housing units, and has made a total of 16 million loans for property improvement. FHA has not only been a mainstay of the postwar housing boom but has also been profitable. With a total of $30 billion worth of insurance issued, FHA netted $92 million from its insurance premiums last year alone...
...Once a mainstay of the Gold Coast, Apley was later used as a residence for probationary sophomores and returning veterans. In the spring of 1952, however, it was converted to office...
...behave like a villain, it does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads until he has been deposed. If I accept, as millions of other Western Europeans do, that America is destined to be the mainstay of freedom in this null century world, it does not follow that American institutions are perfect, that Americans are invariably well behaved, or that the American way of life is flawless. It only means that in one of the most terrible conflicts in human history, I have chosen my side...