Word: redeemingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm tractors will ransom 1,200 Cubans from their homeland, maybe a nuclear submarine or two will redeem the Americans held in Red Chinese jails, and 100 B-58s will persuade the East Germans to release 10,000 of their malcontents...
...first look. President Kennedy's decision to meet with Khrushchev seemed a hasty and perhaps dangerous effort to redeem recent U.S. failures in Southeast Asia, Cuba and other cold war hot spots. But, it now turns out, deep-secret negotiations for the Kennedy -Khrushchev confrontation began a mere three weeks after Jack Kennedy's inauguration...
...persecuted race. I seconded my appeal to the charity of mankind by the character of Sheva, which I copied from this of Abrahams.' The phrase upon principle goes a long way toward explaining not only Sheva's general dramatic insufficiencies, but the collapse of subsequent attempts to redeem the Jew for literature...
...Gold is still the stern voice of monetary discipline," said Alexander, but its chief function is no-longer to redeem domestic currency (which has not been redeemable in gold for 27 years) but to back the dollar in international settlements. Requiring a notes and reserve of 25% in gold against the notes and deposits of the Federal Reserve banks makes our gold supply for international payments only about one-third of our total gold holdings. Nearly $12 billion worth is set aside as a reserve against something it cannot be used to redeem. Such requirements illogically make a country...
...start in real estate in Columbus, which is still company headquarters. His chief talent is thinking up simple solutions to complex problems; his first big break came during the Depression. Life insurance and building-and-loan companies in Columbus, swamped with defaulted property, had no cash to redeem $100 certificates which were being traded as low as $40. Galbreath organized syndicates of well-heeled property owners to buy up the certificates at the going price, turn them into the companies at $100 face value as down payments on defaulted property. The syndicate members made handsome profits when the real estate...