Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nicholas-how nice to see you again!" cried History. "Wherever have you been? And the Tsarina Alix! Your four charming daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
Sergeant Paul Shimer was killed in action in the ETO. Last May, after his term as mayor was up, Rex Stranger hurried to the U.S. and from his own pocket took $3,000 to establish a trust fund for the education of little Patricia Ann Shimer. Grateful citizens of Chambersburg promptly acknowledged the kindness by raising another $3,000 for food for the rationed children of Southampton; the fruit growers of Franklin County stepped forward with the promise of 600 bushels of apples to add to the gift...
...Alice Wynekoop, Chicago physician who gained tabloid fame in 1933 by murdering her daughter-in-law on the Wynekoop basement operating table, went free on parole after serving 13 years and nine months of her 25-year term...
Said a Wall Streeter: "Investors have had a bad psychological shock." The shock was a sudden drop in the price of long-term Government bonds. Last week's drop, over two points in some issues, was the biggest in more than a decade, and it touched off a wave of selling which quickly spread to corporate and municipal bonds. The New York stockmarket, which had been showing signs of a year-end rally, was stopped in its tracks. Cause of all this: a surprise move by the Federal Reserve System which curbed credit...
...Federal Reserve Banks, which have been buying U.S. bonds whenever necessary to keep up their prices, decided that they were too high. The long-term bonds have been selling anywhere from one to three points above par. When the Federal Reserve Banks stopped buying, prices promptly dropped. Although Federal Reserve was mum on the new support level, Wall Streeters guessed that it might be just a shade above...