Word: repay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major Krechet wrote in Moscow's Izvestia: "How will the Fascists be able to repay for the losses of thousands upon thousands of Russian families? The Hitlerites should be annihilated by the dozens, by the thousands, like rats...
...Confederate General Jubal Early, chose instead to meet his $200,000 ransom demand, borrowed the money from its five banks. The debt could have been repaid by a $25 emergency tax on each of the 8,000 residents in 1864. But last week the contemporary city fathers, struggling to repay the loan out of ordinary revenues, figured they had already spent $331,000 in interest, would not have their Civil War debt finally liquidated until...
...profits allowed. Renegotiation may be called for any time until three years after war's end, which means that no company can be sure of its profits (or losses) until that date. And a company not sure of its profits cannot satisfy bankers of its ability to repay loans needed to get the work done...
...handled by the recognized institutions set up to preserve law and order: at Harvard University that means the Yard Cops and the Cambridge policemen. It is easy to go off the handle about a roommate who has had his teeth kicked in. It is always easy to repay violence with violence. But if the student body persists in the vigilance activity of the sort that was launched last night, gang warfare will take it out on the innocent as well as the guilty and the beatings from both sides can only become worse and more frequent...
...deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed that Focke-Wulf machine and pressing shops had sustained a heavy bomb hit, destroying a quarter of the buildings and extensively damaging the rest. The British believed that Focke-Wulf fighter output had suffered a crippling cut, enough to repay them for the 85 British planes lost in the four Bremen raids...