Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressing for a resumption of East-West trade. The Russians need time and a relaxation of tension to ease the satellite situation. Some Russians are calculating that Western Union will break down, that the U.S. may run into domestic economic trouble, and even that Henry Wallace may score an unexpected success...
...thank you, good people: there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score...
...Phooey! I can beat his golf score...
...Washington talking things over. Bargain buying by the U.S. Army of small lots of Argentine beef, lamb and turkey for use in Germany suggested a far from united economic front against Argentina. What went on? EGA, which holds the strings of the biggest purse, gave Ambassador Bruce the score. The EGA would not spend a dime of the U.S. taxpayer's money in Argentina until the Peron government gave some hard & fast promises to: 1) sell to the U.S. at world prices; 2 ) sell to Marshall Plan countries at world prices; 3) resume payments on U.S. investments in Argentina...
...illustration of what he called the "Cyclone Look," Dior showed an evening gown that had nearly a score of stiffened folds projected backward, making it look as if the wearer were carrying a huge semicircular balloon on her stern. In his "Winged Line," beruffled evening dresses were boned, wired, lined and otherwise stiffened to flare out as much as two feet in all directions, preventing their wearers from sitting down, dancing within arm's reach of a partner, or standing...