Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic slowdowns from one cause or another are inevitable, says Economist Paarlberg. They are the price of economic progress. The economy does not grow in a smooth upward curve, but in a series of jumps. It has become so big and dynamic that when one of its major segments slacks...
At first he succeeds. He blackmails his wife anonymously. She borrows from him to raise money for the payoff ("It is easy to be generous," he tells the audience, "when you are sending money to yourself"). Later, he smoothly implicates her lover as a blackmailing gigolo. But the methodical husband...
Hall-Jay Street stop in Brooklyn; cross the platform to take the A express train, get off at the second stop, Lafayette-the front of the train lets you off nearest Cumberland Street; Miss Moore lives on Cumberland, No. 260, which is between Lafayette and De Kalb; it is a...
To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it. Wear qiviut-the underwool of the arctic ox-pulled off it like a sweater,' your coat is warm; your conscience, better.
In the small (three-quarters of a square mile) compounds housing eleven legations, an international force of 400 from eight countries held off some 25,000 wild besiegers for 55 days. A single determined assault would have smothered the defenders. The foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition...