Word: sell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed a tableau vivant, and the village band started practicing...
...court Mindszenty again & again declared he was sorry for what he had done. When he admitted receiving dollar donations from abroad, and letting his subordinates sell them on the black market, he said: "I am sorry. I wish to repay the damage done to the Hungarian state...
Susaeta claims that if it weren't for the dollar shortage he could sell $500,000 worth of Holsteins to Chileans alone. Chile has done as much as it could to help. This year it raised the permissible limit on dollars for purebred imports by 100%. Unfortunately for Salesman Susaeta, he has already almost filled the resulting $100,000 limit, and still has eleven months...
...worst came to worst, Bill DeWitt could always sell some ballplayers or a ballpark-or he could pack up the Browns (and their league franchise) and move them to another city. Since ball clubs began to travel by air, sportwriters have talked about the possibility of moving the franchise to the Pacific coast. Many of them feel sure that St. Louis would not support that much baseball, even if the Browns were a first-division club...
Evil in Purple. What a sell-out audience saw when the curtain finally went up on Salome last week, they would not soon forget. From the pit (which Reiner had ordered lowered to its bottom notch so he and the huge, augmented orchestra could try to keep out of sight), they heard the power, brilliance and detail of Strauss's music as they had seldom heard it before. Onstage, they saw an incandescently evil Salome, flashing in green, purple and red, who commanded the performance from beginning to end. Soprano Welitsch had critics reaching back for comparisons to Olive...