Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather have been a poet. "When people were doing passementerie," says Billy, "he was in fringe." On the fringe is where the Rosenbergs lived. They never held on to a set of rooms for long; it was cheaper to move (to The Bronx or to Brooklyn) than pay the rent...
...Perrier, who once made a fortune selling real estate in the U.S. and lost it gambling in Havana, "that you could fight a nice duel for two or three thousand lire. Now it costs 25,000 ($111 ) or more. How do you spend the money? Well, you have to rent the swords. That's 5,000. Then there are the doctors -another 5,000. Then a dinner for your seconds-10,000. And of course you have to take a taxi. It's too much. I don't know anyone I dislike well enough...
...library comes in handy when the academic urge returns at the start of each term, Pugliese reported yesterday, for undergraduates may rent a book for a term at a 25 cent charge...
...bill brought out by the G.O.P. leadership would extend rent controls until next January-and for three months longer if the President thought it necessary. But it would abolish Government controls over building materials and new construction. It brought immediate howls from both sides of the fence...
Cried Michigan's Paul Shafer: "A year ago the Republicans fought rent control. The Democrats were for it. If they were crazy last year, why should we be this year?" Big-"city Congressmen were just as angry for the opposite reason. They claimed that a provision permitting a 15% rent boost in return for a two-year lease was putting a shotgun in the landlord's hands...