Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people my age. In the Forces, I developed strong Labor sympathies and a firm conviction that the Conservatives were unprogressive and antisocial. I was elated when Labor came into power, but even I have to admit sadly that this last year has been very dull. However, I refuse to pour down accusations and blame on the Laborites, and consider it the result of our impoverished postwar position...
...along Skid Row. "It's the inflation," he said, "a guy can't make a living on the bum any more. You gotta have 15 to 20 bucks a week. Used to be you could walk into the Shamrock and lay down 11? and the barkeep would pour you two stiff shots of rye. Now it costs you 20? a single shot at Frank's or Jack's or the House of All Nations...
...that gave the spectacular example of supply & demand. In the first day of free trade at the Chicago stockyards, prime beef jumped to $22 a hundredweight (OPA ceiling: $18), hogs were up to $18.50 (ceiling: $14.85). Then the farmers, hurrying to cash in on the high prices, began to pour in cattle by the thousand. One day alone brought in 20,000 hogs, greatest number in six months...
...effect of the grass-fed beef which will soon start moving off the ranges. The big packers were still buying little. They were afraid of losing their subsidies if OPA comes back. And they intended to wait for the lower prices that would surely come if cattle continued to pour...
Things were so bad that Mohandas Gandhi devoted his weekly day of silence, when he usually gets a rest from the questions*that pour in from all over India, to fuming and fretting over the big question of Congress cooperation in an interim government...