Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet days of yore, before this world-shaking conflagration wrought havoc with the status quo, a date with a college girl was an event--an event that often rent the soul and spirit of a man College girls used to cost money...
...Rochester, N.Y., Congressman Joe O'Brien, incumbent Republican who lost his seat to his friend and Democratic opponent, George Rogers, politely agreed to rent his Washington apartment to Rogers, easily arranged for only a two-year sublease...
...Juan José Arevalo became phenomenally popular as a Presidential candidate. Ponce forced him to take refuge in the Mexican Embassy. The Mexican Ambassador, Dr. Romeo Ortega, had openly supported the first "People's Revolution." The Mexican Embassy took in so many refugees that Dr. Ortega had to rent part of the Palace Hotel to care for them...
...with war orders and short of skilled workers, 20 small, back-alley machine shops had hijacked machinists from bigger war plants. Their system was simple: each would hire someone else's skilled worker away as a "private contractor," let him "bid" on each job he turned out and "rent" the machine he worked on. Technically, this wile put the worker in business for himself. Thus the worker who changed jobs needed no WMC statement of availability, and by "bidding" for jobs, neatly dodged WLB wage ceilings as well...
...restatement of some of the ideas of Author Wylie's recent Generation of Vipers (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943), the framework is a ghost story. Ann Gracey, war widow agreed to rent her haunted house to John Galen, a biochemist, who had just learned that he was epileptic and in danger of madness. The developing love of these two, and the search for the "It" hidden in the house share interest with the author's views on religion, politics, art, and-above all-death. Provocative. General