Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bessie smashed with a fierce, unladylike scream at the Florida coast from Fort Lauderdale, 24 miles north of Miami, to the yacht-and villa-spangled shores of Palm Beach. Thundering winds (an anemometer at the Jupiter Inlet Light registered 162 before it was blown away) shattered plate glass, ripped roofs...
For more than 24 hours, the hurricane winds flailed nearly a fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a...
Last week, having run up $800 in back rent, Alfred Birnbaum decided he was better off when he was in his small walk-up fiat, sold all his rights to the $15,000 dream house to a New York lawyer for $1,000, to get the blamed thing off his...
On the eve of the Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble. On both sides of the Atlantic, hot words cooled off under the growing realization that the British crisis was a crisis for the...
¶EUR Wages must be frozen (but not reduced). Otherwise industry may be forced to lay off workers.