Word: moving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taft's position was a little hard to follow: he wanted the U.S. to announce that it would fight if Russia made an aggressive move in Europe, but was unwilling to sign a treaty which said the same thing in a more carefully hedged...
...Imperial Outer Guard, which is the first and only contested place in the Shrine's national hierarchy (candidates spend large sums on favors like fountain pens and tie clasps, and set up many a drink). Once in the hierarchy, called the Imperial Divan, the select and exalted nobles move up automatically one position each year until reaching the Imperial Potentateship. Lloyd was defeated for Outer Guard the first year; the next year his rivals withdrew, and he was unanimously elected...
Webster, a shrewd infighter, began bucking Straus's every move. He accused him of spending Eversharp's money extravagantly, lined up other directors against him. At Webster's urging, Straus was stripped of all Eversharp control save advertising. Three months ago the directors kicked Straus out of the chairmanship by abolishing...
...used his engineer's training to build it up with chemical fertilizers. He rigged pipes through it, brought in two 100-h.p. pumps to sprinkle it with 1,000 gallons of water a minute from a nearby pond. His only cost was gasoline for the pumps, labor to move the sprinklers, a total of only $10 to $15 per acre a season. This year, when drought withered the crops of thousands of New England farmers, Richards' well-watered acres flourished...
...must have been out of my mind. I thought I'd just walk in and they'd point the camera at me. You have to cope with 16 people with things on their minds like making chalk marks on the floor . . . The director tells the cameraman to move to the right and he says, 'You mean your right or my right...