Word: opener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million dollars a year (there were only 94 by the most recent count, as compared with 513 in 1929), would feel a certain caution after paying up to $770,000 in tax. Many of the nation's heavy spenders, who kept the big nightclubs and the Florida hotels open, used expense-account dollars, which was still fun-but not quite in the same old, free and purposeless...
...three tipsy U.S. Navy sailormen left off swigging rum in the open-air cabaret opposite the Capitol, crossed to Havana's Central Park, and amused themselves tossing coins to scrambling urchins. It occurred to one that he could probably climb to the top of the soft, statue in the park; he completed the feat amidst cheers from the youngsters and park idlers. Blearily, he plunked his white hat on the hatless marble head of Jose Marti, the No. 1 hero of Cuba's war for independence. Down below, his drunken shipmates casually relieved themselves among the flowerpots...
...prescribe for industry, as compared with agriculture. It was no secret that Commission Aide Euvaldo Lodi, president of the National Confederation of Industry (Brazil's N.A.M.), had argued heatedly in favor of industrial development, even charging that some U.S. commissioners wanted to leave that field wide open for fellow yanquis. But the commission's finding was that Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost in power, transportation, and raw materials, the commission assigned such increases preference, if not full priority...
...them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection of the bone). The infections from the bullets, Diagnostician Gardner thinks, brought...
...purpose of reaching through discussion a clear understanding of the things about which Christendom is united and the things about which it is divided ... So many . . . things at Amsterdam were simply encouraging . . . [that] I am glad that I did not harden myself against this new experience, but kept myself open...