Word: raked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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violations of the antitrust laws" as an automaker. What's more, added RCA darkly, if Philco proposed to examine "ancient history," RCA would do likewise-a clear hint that RCA was ready to rake up memories of some of old Henry Ford's highhanded tactics in the 1930s...
...Chips Janger, as Jack Snow, a rake who joins the Corps for his own reasons, is smooth talking and a graceful dancer. (The rest of the acting and singing ranges from undistinguished to lousy...
...PRODIGAL RAKE-MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY (452 pp.)-edited by Peter Quennell-Dutton...
...recall the description of the Man with the Muckrake, the man who could look no way but downward, with a muckrake in his hands; who was offered a celestial crown for his muckrake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown that was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor." Such a man typified these new writers, Roosevelt said, excepting Steffens and Tarbell because of their great scholarship...
...third Purvis motion asked that the HSA be "required to publish a full financial statement annually." Rumors of high rake-offs by agency executives and a desire to evaluate HSA's prices prompted the measure...