Word: staked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rain is expected to turn the encounter into a wild, free-swinging scramble from start to finish. With so much at stake, both teams will be going all out--every ball will be played and all shots will be followed...
...United Steelworkers were digging in for a prolonged battle of principle (see The Economy). Digging in behind them were such major industries as copper, shipping, railroads and meat packing in what promised to be the greatest labor-management confrontation since the sit-down-strike days of the 1930s. At stake was not only the prosperous pace of business but the President's own strong stand against inflationary wage-price boosts...
...view, the poem is a satirical work in which Homer lampooned the princelings at whose courts he recited, while pretending to hymn the heroes of the past. In this view, Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, is the prize buffoon. And when Hector, the Trojan leader, offers to stake the whole war on a single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus, whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris, grudgingly accepts the challenge-but quickly lets himself be talked out of it. When at last Ajax is chosen...
...subcommittee recessed until next month after hearing Dr. Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, say there is always the danger of connivance in high-stake quiz shows...
...seats at stake, unopposed junior representatives were elected in Dunster, Eliot, Lowell and Quincy Houses. Sophomores won by default in Adams, Kirkland, Leverett, and Winthrop...