Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section headed "Up From the Ape" the poll aims to determine whether the subject is a confirmed beer guzzler, a sipper only on social occasion, or among those who soak up hard "likker" by the quart in solitary confinement...
...combination underwent a significant change. British capital, once exported in large amounts, was kept at home by rigid exchange controls. South Africa felt the pinch. It needed upwards of $300 million to develop the new Orange Free State field (TIME, April 29). Industrial expansion and new mining machinery would soak up millions more. Although sound and prosperous, South Africa did not have this sort of money on hand. U.S. businessmen, still outside the golden circle, saw the chance of a lifetime. Two U.S. firms lost no time taking...
...policies of irresponsible labor unionism as seen today can only lead directly to ... the rising of the very "fascist system" which union leaders now attack. The country simply cannot continue to be torn up by the roots, every time some small group of citizens wishes to "soak the public...
Winston I looked forward to a holiday in the U.S. His physician had urged "a month or more in a warm climate and . . . complete rest." He would soak up sunlight, brandy and cigar smoke at the Miami home of Canadian Papermaker Frank W. Clarke, his Laurentian camp host after the 1943 meeting with Franklin Roosevelt...
...Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves are virtually burlesques: almost everything the old maid does smacks of melodrama...