Word: reapings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After two days' inspection, the reap-praisers okayed the Parke, Davis vaccine...
...reap a fine harvest of praise for the informative and appreciative article, and may Claire McCardell's enthusiastic customers be multiplied to their own certain delight. You say anyone can wear McCardell's clothes, but "they look best on what countless ads have presented as the ideal American beauty-tall, slim, long-legged." As one of the most un-American types imaginable (short, curvy, unathletic), I would like to testify that McCardell's clothes have been as if made-to-order for me from the early dirndl and Monastics through to the recent classic shirtwaist...
...tour of duty in the regulars. With the aid of pay reforms and new G.I. benefits, the Defense Department could make the regular army as attractive as six-month service. While the Administration recently raised the pay for career servicemen, a general pay boost for all army members might reap more first enlistments. Tremendous jumps in the enlistment rate during January because of the termination of veterans' benefits on February 1 showed the effectiveness of retirement benefits and other G.I. rights in producing volunteers. The expected cuts in the standing army and elimination of the provisions for extensive active reserve...
Zachariades carried his campaign against Ploumbides right up to the end. After Ploumbides was found guilty and confined to a sanatorium to await his execution, Zachariades broadcast taunts at the Greek police: "Why does Ploumbides live? He will be taken secretly out of Greece to reap his reward for betrayal of the Communist Party...
...Treaties of Rapallo (allying Germany with Russia in 1922) and Locarno (allying her with the West in 1925), Germany had risen from the ashes of World War I. A new Rapallo-Locarno policy would again enable Germany to play the two power blocs off against each other, and reap rewards from both. Adenauer was "too dogmatic" and he was also too dependent on the U.S., which Herr Professor Brüning said gloomily, is headed for an economic slump.* Then up stood old Hans Luther, another pre-Hitler Chancellor (1925-26) and one-time Ambassador to the U.S. He agreed...