Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Might Come. In seeking to gain one concession after another from us, Russia hopes to profit by the well-known reluctance of democracies to risk war and the equally well-known ability of dictatorships to do so or at least to appear to be running the risk. Such a policy usually has a short-range advantage for the dictatorships. But it ultimately leads to war. The concessions, which the democracies make, pile up fears and resentments among even a reluctant population until the moment is reached when even democracies are forced to make a stand. Meanwhile the same concessions increase...
...opposition within Yugoslavia (which Tito has ruthlessly suppressed): "We are not against any opposition movement which desires to assist in the reconstruction of the country." But, added Tito indignantly, the present opposition actually "seeks to profit by the mistakes we make." He made a grim prophecy: "I know [the opposition] will never become stronger, only weaker...
...squandered our soul by trying to possess something outside it, and we'll end as that game usually does, by losing our soul and the thing outside it too. But why go on-the Bible said it much better: 'For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul...
...Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year...
...Wholesalers will profit by the difference. But cigaret smokers will pay 1? a pack more for all major brands (last week's ½? raise, along with a six-months-old ½? raise which retailers have been absorbing). Cigaret makers did not seem worried lest the price boost seriously cut sales further; they are already well down from their wartime peak...