Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again and again Madrid proletarians were driven in mad, screaming retreat, but again and again their shattered lines reformed to attempt fresh resistance with Spanish stubbornness, then suffer another rout. Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness. The steep-banked Manzanares River still lay between him and the capital and he knew its six bridges were heavily mined, but along with attending to military details he was also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which...
...Framingham over Armistice Day and Climbed Nobscot "Mountain", looking over miles of Massachusetts though cold bright air. Roses in My Love's cheeks. The mountain is not much but steep in places and you get up a nice wind climbing in a hurry. A trail over boulders and around logs and it is all rather civilized because you meet people on their way down, but nevertheless the nicest hill to climb near Boston...
...Ashford's 48 voters get up on Election Day at 5 a. m., troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone...
Bitter were complaints from brokers last spring when the Federal Reserve upped margin requirements from 45% to 55%. They protested that the requirement was too steep, that it would throttle investment buying along with speculation. Politely the Reserve Board invited the New York Stock Exchange to survey effects of the new ruling. Last week the Exchange completed its report, sent it to Washington without comment. On the basis of three samplings, a month apart, it appeared that about one-third of all margin accounts were "restricted" (i. e., frozen). These restricted accounts also represented one-third of all securities held...
...baby eat wild celery. At a waterhole a mother giraffe with widespread forelegs is bending down to drink. Beside her are the male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There is a group of five lions, including a superb black-maned male. Four giant sable antelopes are resting...