Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Atlantic Treaty, in its blue goatskin binding, was safely tucked away in the State Department archives, eight of the signers went one step further. They asked Secretary of State Dean Acheson if they could now expect arms from the U.S. No facts or figures were mentioned, though rough estimates put the first-year cost somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion. Acheson promised to see what he could...
...tunghsi, or curio salesmen, find business rough. Their bronzes, brasswork and jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
...claims that bad weather and the horrendous physical condition of several of his charges have put him behind schedule. The former forced the shells off the river for one of the crucial vacation-day practice sessions, while rough waters and rain slowed down training for much of the rest of that week...
Great Step. Laborite Bevin also dropped in at the National Press Club and won reporters' applause by his simple, rough-hewn ways/and his defense of the pact. Said Bevin: "To would-be aggressors, it says: 'Think twice-think thrice' ... I believe as the years go on it will be said of this week in Washington: 'There, in that pact, humanity took its great step to enthrone the great freedoms of the world...
...were the advance guard of a horde of 400,000 U.S. tourists who will go to Europe this year. Some will travel in luxury and in style, paying up to $2,340 for first class round-trip passage on the Queens and $1,790 on the America; some will rough it in the "dormitory ships," which carry student tours for as little as $280 round trip. Nearly all the 31 passenger ships (seven more than last year) plying the ocean lanes from the U.S. to Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France, absent...