Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hapless attempt to redeem themselves, the Communist government announced that 84 carloads of hogs, 39 carloads of fish and nine carloads of butter were on the way to East Germany from Red Poland. But while this much conciliation continued, the Communist rulers began to talk a tough line, and demanded discipline in their own ranks. Sixteen East German workers, accused of rioting, were sentenced to long prison terms, and Soviet T-34 tanks were once again seen on the outskirts of East Berlin...
...freshmen too can redeem a mediocre season by beating Yale...
...tackled and demolished everything from dope smuggling to the gold standard. A resolution for return to the latter brought protest from an amateur economist: "It would be chaotic to put the United States alone on the gold standard." She was silenced by "It is only foreigners who can't redeem in gold," and the resolution passed...
...Cole Porter couldn't do much with Greek legend and Yoskowitz, whose "fertility, agility, virility" sequences are more Tom Lehrer than Porter, fares no better. If the play let was intended as comedy, there is none; if as poetry, the lover's one creditable speech near the need cannot redeem...
...plants, but not his company. Kaiser Manufacturing, which is changing its own name to Willys Motors, will operate the plants, while the original Willys-Overland Motors, having transformed its property into cash, will continue as an independent investment company. As with any other investment company, stockholders who want to redeem their stock will ultimately be able to cash it in for the $17 net asset value (nearly $2.50 more than its market price after the merger...