Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of you seem to regard us as a court of last resort for settling your wagers on every conceivable subject. We are even asked to lighten the load of parents beset with the one-track vagaries of small boydom. Wrote one of them to us recently, in some desperation: "I have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm...
...Atami is a resort town near Yokohama where, according to Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire, "certain of the spots are so extraordinarily romantic that they lure one to suicide...
After a publicity campaign that recalled the gilded '20s, northern France's No. 1 beach resort held its first summer opening in six years. The 10,000-odd visitors, including some 2,000 Britons and a scattering of Americans, saw the-Normandy coast playground as they had seen it on picture postcards-tree-shaded streets, restful, gaily decorated buildings and a placid, dull-green...
Said the autoworkers' Walter Reuther: "If our fight against increased prices fails we will begin a fight on the wage front."That fight, said Reuther, would be under taken only as a "last resort." Labor now realizes that wage boosts mean price boosts, that another such game of leap frog can end only in the wild inflation that everyone dreads. Labor also knows how to use the weapons of a war of nerves. But labor might be using those same weapons against itself...
...Hayes of Hayes-Bick, or the "Take it out on Labor" doctrine of David Lawrence, or the pressure apparently put on the press to keep from the public the ominous picture of worthless values made up by figures on basic commodity prices. The consumer is his own last resort. A refusal to buy the time on which producers are speculating will leave the dollar with some value when production once more synchronizes itself with demand...