Word: net
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain and more than 9% in the U.S. There is so much dissatisfaction in the services about low pay* that the government last year had to forbid further resignations by officers. Only 1,765 recruits were obtained in the last nine months, which, after wastage, resulted in a net gain of only...
...alleged Communists in civil rights organizations, e.g. J. Edgar Hoover's remarks about the New York City stall-in. Finally, there would seem to be a direct relationship between the rise in the number of Negroes killed and the amount of Negro property destroyed and accelerated Negro demands. The net result is a growing white counter-revolution which is able to use legitimate organized force and preventive laws to deter and intimidate Negro demonstrators. Thus, non-violent strategy has not worked because the assumptions about white reactions were incorrect...
...general scheme. Jocelin's ecstasy always burns like a flame, and an angel continually appears behind him to stand for his inspired will. The Master Builder and his wife "revolve around each other." And the urge which entangles the Master Builder in adultery with an innocent townswoman is "the net." This repetition does convey the rigidity of Jocelin's mind. But it is also boring, and has to be justified as a part of Golding's slightly condescending fable-telling manner. Stylistic consistency is also apparently meant to account for the rather childish Anglo-Saxon in which Golding's characters...
...loot. For where a single ticket holder (estimated on a fairly shortsighted basis to have a wife, two children and no outside income) would take no more than the standard 10% deduction and pay a whopping $67,000 tax, a seven-way split figured on the same basis would net each partner $18,890 and leave the Government a measly $23,000 total. Said the Revenooers last week: "We will take a pretty close look at all of this." In other words, they wanted to be sure the cartel came before the horse...
...partner spraying shots wildly, Fitzgobbon took command. At net he covered almost every inch of the court; he never lost his own serve, and his overhead seemed infallible...