Word: stave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jocular member: "Mr. Smith came to town and after a couple of Democrats got through with him it was Good-bye Mr. Chips.") Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, who tried to convince the Committee that nothing less than $13.8 billion in new taxes would stave off inflation ($6 billion to be re fundable after the war), heard his program branded as "amazing," "fantastic...
...oldest buildings. A manuscript of President Wadsworth reads: "The President's house to dwell in was raised May 24, 1726. No life was lost, no person hurt in raising it...In ye Evening, those who raised ye House had Supper in Ye Hall; after which we sang ye first stave or staff in ye 127 Psalm...
While the proprietors of the local apothecary shops specializing in liquid prescriptions tear their hair, the sandwich shop men rub their hands in delight, for many is the edible carried into Mower, Lionel, and Strauss, to stave off that gnawing hunger that comes...
...bill, 44-to-29, setting up an independent Civilian Supply Administration. Donald Nelson had already set up a brand-new civilian supply division, headed by pint-sized Arthur D. Whiteside. On Czar Whiteside in the last fortnight Nelson had lavished new powers and prerogatives, in a desperate attempt to stave off the Senate bill. Result: Czar Whiteside now has the world's most ambiguous job. If the House shares the Senate's conviction that the home front will never get an adequate hearing within WPB, Mr. Whiteside's goose is cooked, and Mr. Nelson...
...moment for which the First Army had waited and trained and fought throughout the winter, the climax toward which the Tunisian campaign had been growing for months and which the enemy had tried to stave off with counter-attacks - the most recent of which, only two nights before, had cost him 33 tanks when his armor plunged headlong into British gun positions. It was a moment carefully chosen: the Eighth Army had taken Takrouna and was diverting Axis strength to the southwest; since before dawn other British units of the First Army had been attacking just to the south; before...