Word: spend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screen in the Oval Room or at Blair House. He cleaned up pressing business, solemnly signing the $1,314,010,000 European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department's chief of protocol...
...This is like life insurance. If you live in a dangerous world," he said, "anything you do to prevent war is not wasted. However, if we are never to have any more wars, what we spend on defense is wasted...
...heard notion that coaches spend "sleepless nights" when they have worries is quite pertinent this week in the case of the varsity soccer team; and Coach Druce Munro hopes his sleepless nights will bring about a Crimson triumph when the team takes on Army at noon today on the Business School Field...
...themselves well amused. The ships had their bars and canteens, and since a ship at sea constitutes a sort of neutral no-man's-land, liquor and such comes tax free. Needless to say, it flowed freely. The foreign lines were more than happy to encourage the Americans to spend their money, especially when they spent dollars. The Dutch Line went so far as to mint some special ships money, script and coin, to keep the students from spending Dutch guilder...
...balmy summer nights were much too nice to spend below decks, so many evenings were taken up with quiet outdoor amusements. Lifeboats were rated excellent substitutes for the parlor sofa or the back seat of the family car, and it was rumored that some of the blanket rolls on the boat deck were cood...