Word: repossess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Purchasing Corp. of Detroit to buy a 1936-model Dodge for $500 in installments. When he lost his job last December he went home to Cattaraugus Reservation, taking with him his car, on which he still owed $296. Receiving no more payments from him, the credit company sought to repossess...
...that Belgium and Portugal should be forced to yield their long held rich Congo and Angola to a chartered company in which they would be "partners" with Germany, which would own the controlling interest. Hitler, in return for the above concessions, would bind Germany never to attempt to repossess the more valuable once-German colonies now held as mandates by the United Kingdom, France, the Dominions, and Japan...
...Tree, amiably suggests that a small part be written in for the chef. In addition to the mortal drolleries of these accomplished comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There are also a frantic and shirtless stage manager, a great penultimate fake deathbed scene which keeps Miller and almost everyone else from being taken to jail for fraud and forgery. Critical consensus...
...approached his goal, a pressgang from His Majesty's Navy caught him, and it was seven years before he was discharged. Although he still thought of Sarah, he "was too old to undertake any more love pilgrimages" and the desire he "at one time felt to repossess her was now softened into a curiosity to know what had become of her." But he never found out as he settled down, married, dodged more pressgangs, was destitute when a kindly bookbinder persuaded him to record his story...
Same day in Memel Territory, which Germany aspires to repossess from Lithuania, the District Governor ordered all able-bodied men who received military training last year to "report for re-examination...