Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prop up the slipping Argentine peso (now down to 40 to the dollar at the free rate). Aramburu last week got a $75 million loan from the International Monetary Fund. To draw the dollars. Argentina must post an equivalent sum in pesos (figured at the official rate of 18 to the dollar) and within three to five years must repurchase the pesos with dollars at the same ratio...
...anything from an Austin to a Renault or Volkswagen (never a Hillman Minx, of course); it has unusual features, such as the engine being in back (which makes for question-provoking louvres where the trunk lid should be), or turn signals that point out from the door posts instead of blinking from the rear fenders, lending a quaint, Old World flavor. The real virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little. The great amount of crowding necessary, and the uncomfortableness that arises, make up for the loss of the windblown Lambretta feeling and impart...
...would join the desperate people in Sartre's stories and the creatures of Camus in their state of elevated wretchedness--a vilifying yet inexpensive estrangement that sets them off from their humdrum fellows. They have in their minds' eye the limbo of clandestine disbelief they think is occupied by post-war, or just post-nineteenth century, European intellectual degenerates. Needless to say, they fall short, and usually end up feeling what they imagine French poets feel or at least what philosophy students at the Sorbonne feel when they look at American tourists with a disdainful glare...
...religion report, misinterpret it, tie it up with the national religious revival, and satisfy millions of anxious mothers that their sons are secure in the faiths of their fathers, and that they have deep feeling for their Religious Heritage. We may even fill out our circulation with Saturday Evening Post readers...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral examined the mixture of metaphor that streamed out of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, grasped his pencil like a sword and fired this broadside of ironic gripeshot...