Word: petards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petard. If the Republicans needed any more petards to hoist Harry Truman, they had one in ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles. He agreed that the Administration's plan for increasing bank reserves was one way to check inflationary credit. It was a scheme which he had suggested himself last fall and which the President had then ignored. As for the rest of the President's program, such proposals as the long-range housing program would only force inflationary pressures even higher. Said Eccles: "It's like try ing to fill up the bathtub with the stopper...
...Petard. In lola, Kans., Painter Arthur L. Barnes put the finishing touches on a "No Parking" sign, later paid a $3 fine for ignoring...
...instance, poetic justice did not wait for the moderates. One night last week in the Street of the Prophet, a gang of terrorists were literally hoisted on their own petard. Their car, a 1941 Plymouth, swerving under the impact of a British machine-gun burst, hit a traffic island. Then, with door open and amatol mines falling out, it swerved and hit a child, crumpled into a tree, and exploded, blowing the two occupants into tattered shreds. Several houses on both sides of the street collapsed as the mines went off. All that remained of one Arab-style villa...
Their Own Petard. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles to the north, Mitscher's air fleets had flown off the battle carriers' ample decks, long before dawn. They swooped out of the rising sun upon the ships which flew it as their battle flag. The U.S. flyers were amazed to find virtually no air opposition: the Japs had been caught in a variation of-the trick which had brought them disaster in June. Their carriers' planes were refueling on Luzon...
...Street courtyard facing the Varsity Club, the students of the oldest and most blase of America's universities will gather to steal a Big Green leaf out of Dartmouth's book by staging a mass rally in an effort to hoist the team from Hanover on its own enthusiastic petard...