Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were not sure of what it might bring. They did not, however, believe that it was the beginning of disaster. "We haven't gone over the cliff," said a Washington economist. "We've just hit a bump in the road." Despite the fact they had taken huge paper losses in the last few days, farmers showed no sign of panic. They confidently expected prices to go up again...
...James ("Toothpick Charlie") Kilpatrick, 84, once one of the nation's most finished second-story men, was arrested (for the 32nd time) in Los Angeles. His crime: milking pay telephones. He had been extracting $10 a day from 100 telephones by plugging their coin-return slots with paper, letting nickels, dimes and quarters clog up inside until he came to collect them...
...Tempo swung its spotlight on red-shirted Garibaldini squads in the region of Lecce, on a "liberty brigade" in Bari, on a Verona clothes factory commissioned to make military-style berets. Then the paper brought off a small coup: it ran a letter from the grandson and namesake of the Italian liberator himself. Mourned grandson Giuseppe Garibaldi: ". . .There is no law in Italy to protect . . . the portrait and name of my grandfather . . . [from being] made to represent parties which are the very negation of Garibaldian traditions of liberty...
Princeton's overall season's average looks slightly superior to that of the Crimson on paper, but its nine victories in 15 tries have been over slightly less formidable opponents...
Nordic combined: paper event scored by adding points of each of four men in both cross country and jumping...