Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect, it is largely the resident dons in Oxford who have a say in the outcome. After weeks of argument at "high tables" and public readings of both men's poetry, the M.A.s filed in their black gowns into the domed Sheldonian to cast their ballots. The sur prise winner at week's end-and Oxford poetry professor for the next five years: Edmund Blunden, with 477 votes v. 241 for Loser Lowell...
...Five years ago," Freeman told a farm group in Lincoln, Neb., last month, "I was just beginning to learn what a Secretary of Agriculture does to earn the title." What does he do? "He sur vives." To which McNamara, Rusk and Udall would probably agree...
...learned that the American Distilling Co. was about to declare a dividend of one barrel of whisky per share. He bought 5,000 shares on margin-and to make his 5,000-bbl. dividend go up further, he mixed the whisky with alcohol made from potatoes purchased from Government sur pluses. The blend was sold to the wartime whisky-parched public and to other distillers. To produce the alcohol, he began buying distilleries, ended up with eleven, and sold them in 1956, winding up with a total take of well over $10 million...
...import spurt would be easier to tolerate if exports were keeping pace. Export growth has been stunted by several factors: dock strikes in the U.S., the slowing of business expansion in Europe and Japan, Britain's 10% sur charge on imports, and the worldwide plunge in commodities prices, which the underdeveloped nations depend on to earn foreign exchange. And, despite denials from U.S. officials, many businessmen suspect that the "voluntary" cutback of U.S. loans abroad has also hurt the nation's exports by drying up dollars in Europe...
...months the stoutly pro-American and pro-European Pinay, still clear-eyed and vigorous at 73, had been insisting that he would run only sur demande, and then only in "the case of grave and dramatic circumstances." The center delegates thought they had such a case in De Gaulle's harshly anti-NATO, anti-Common Market press-conference pronouncements a fortnight ago. But Pinay last week professed to be still unconvinced. If things were all that bad, he asked, why were not Deputies resigning, workers marching in the street? He would run only if assured at least a third...