Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge road-building and heavy construction programs which the war had deferred. Last week, with his order backlog so heavy that he has to put his customers on allocations, Neumiller was sure that 1949's sales would outstrip even 1948's alltime record-unless business goes to pot. Even then, thinks Neumiller, plenty of Cats would be needed in public works projects...
After the war, the Porters plunged headlong into Europe's melting pot of millionaires and marquises. They bought a $250,000 house in Paris, complete with kidskin chairs, zebra rugs and a room decorated in platinum leaf, but the house was often only a place from which mail was forwarded to the English countryside, Antibes, Venice, Florence, Siena, and the Duke of Alba's palaces in Seville and Madrid. In 1923, when Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, he began renting Venetian palaces...
...brought out its revolutionary new records at a time when the business had gone to pot, largely because of consumer apathy. The "L.P." record caught on so well that the industry estimated Columbia has sold $5,000,000 of the new records in four months, double what it had expected...
...fewer interruptions for laughter now, and a telephone ring at that moment suggested my time was up. But I held firm. When Miss Cam returned from the call, I hurriedly mentioned her copies of Henry Adams, one of her predecessors in medieval history. What did she think of his pot shots at Harvard? "Oh, I've really not been here long enough to say. He was an extraordinarily clever man, though." Well--what about hobbies? The Last Resort. "I like walking and cycling; I do wish I had brought over my bicycle. And I also do some water-coloring. Those...
According to official estimates, there are 45 million Untouchables in India and slightly less than three million in Pakistan. Their touch, their shadow, even their mere presence is considered polluting by some caste Hindus. In some villages they must wait by the well, pot in hand, till a charitable upper-caste Hindu (standing at a careful distance) pours some water for them. Occasionally an Untouchable will gather enough money to hire an upper-caste villager to draw his water for him regularly. Caste Hindu employers sometimes wrap up the money to be paid Untouchable workers, drop the pay into their...