Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other signs, the bestowal of additional leisure time to talented students had worked against the University's broad goals. Too many, it seemed, spent too much time doing anything but study. The theatre revived and flourished, WHRB installed an FM transmitter, and the CRIMSON seriously attempted to match professional journalistic standards. Even the political organizations had time to stage one bizarre fiasco after another...
...made a quick personal decision to execute the classic naval maneuver known as getting the hell out of here. Our escorts and minesweeper broke off and began firing back at the Communist PTs and gunboats that had ambushed us. Blood-red tracers zipped, skipped and finally floated out like spent skyrocket bursts as they sought targets. Brilliant, diamond-bright air bursts from Communist shore batteries to the east rained shrapnel down. Over the roar of small boats' motors rose the baritone whump of Nationalist three-inchers and the chatter of both sides' machine guns...
...Lion & the Elephant. As Minister of Native Affairs, Verwoerd palavered endlessly with tribal chiefs, endlessly exhorted the Africans: "We should live apart, as the lion and the elephant live apart." But for all his determination to drive the blacks into "native reserves," Verwoerd spent more money on them than had any other Minister of Native Affairs. The number of native children in school has almost doubled since 1953. Verwoerd boasts that South Africa spends $8.61 yearly per capita on native health and education, compared with $1.30 in the Belgian Congo and 3? in India. He was quick to add, however...
...estimated 4,600,000. But even optimistic Tex Colbert felt that buyers are not yet as enthusiastic as the industry would like. Said he: "People still show some tendency to wait for further signs of recovery before taking on new obligations." To loosen consumer purse strings, Chrysler spent $150 million to face-lift its cars, installed a swivel front seat in many models to make it easier...
Later, Capitalist Eaton gave his impression of the Communist leader: "He is a man who is not to be pushed around. You get the idea when you're with him that he's the boss. I have spent most of my life persuading myself that I can read men and their minds. Of Khrushchev I am convinced that he wants peace." For Mindreader Eaton, the Red boss seemed to have an equally high opinion. As a farewell present, he gave Eaton a troika, an old-fashioned open carriage, and three matched horses, plus a trainer's services...