Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury last week tried to clear up a year-old financial mystery with some fiscal double talk. It stiffly announced that the U.S. is not obligated to redeem the millions of dollars worth of invasion currency which U.S. armies have used in invaded countries. Said the Treasury: "No promise of redemption was ever made. No invasion currency carries any legend suggesting redemption by the U.S. . . . We have no secret understandings that we will ever...
...plot of the Nolan family growing up in Williamsburg, there is a great opportunity for characterization at the happy expense of the narrative force which the cinema more often emphasizes. Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson come through with character jobs as Francie and Neeley that without a doubt redeem any of the picture's tedium...
Robert Burns, greatest of Scottish poets, who supposedly drank himself to death (in 1796) when he was only 37, and whose admirers have periodically attempted to redeem his honor, got his bad reputation newly scotched by Dr. Sidney Watson Smith, onetime president of the British Medical Association. In the B.M.A.'s Journal, Dr. Smith presented medical evidence against the "gossip's fable," declared that Burns "suffered and died from subacute infective endocarditis -that microbic inflammation of the heart which usually has a fatal ending in septicaemia...
Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written dialogue that is hurdly above average and often decidedly trite, but they redeem themselves in the delightfully daft lyrics of the hit number, "I Get Carried Away...
...Allied soldiers invading Sicily in July 1943 carried paper money that resembled cigar coupons. On one side was printed "Allied Military Currency," on the other the Four Freedoms (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943). Washington, for the next 15 months, did not even hint who would redeem the $350,000,000 worth of invasion money (pegged rate: 100 lire to a dollar) which the U.S. and Britain subsequently issued in Italy. Said Treasury Secretary Morgenthau cryptically : redemption was a matter for the peace table...