Word: tab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rockefeller considers a business suit adequate for his inauguration, why the black tie for the evening celebrations? Why not formal dress for a formal occasion ? As far as evening junketing is concerned, any man who picks up a $40,000 tab can wear a bikini and be regarded as the best-dressed man in the assemblage...
...Crimson could have won the game even without the goal-tending of Harry Pratt and of Tab Cleary, who played the last two periods. Between them they turned away nine shots, most of them long dribbling thrusts from behind the blue line...
When a fellow takes out his tooth these days, the prime requirement is that she be a jazz bomb. He, for his part, is expected to make sure the coals are right for picking up the tab. Sometimes, of course, the heap plays sour, but more often the music is really served-served like a cloud, in fact. And if the sinatra is a keg, every number is liable to get real oblique...
...extent to which the Crimson dominated the game was evident in goalie Harry Pratt's saves: five in the first two periods and eight (half by Tab Cleary) in the third. The Williams sextet, which had a contest with Bowdoin "melted out" Friday, had skated together for only ten days before the game, and lacked a cohesive attack...
...Help from Home. What makes the situation precarious is that in times past, Owner Hughes could be counted on to pick up the tab for losses. But Hughes is having troubles in other parts of his empire. Hughes Tool Co., which is financing T.W.A.'s new jets, is in no position to absorb more heavy losses. For years the company did a $120 million annual business in oilfield equipment-and turned a 50 profit before tax on every dollar. Now profits are down sharply. A decline in oil drilling, rising competition at home and imports of oil from abroad...