Word: thrift
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...inconsistencies of team-written dictionaries. If "hit the nail on the head" appears in one half of his book he makes sure that dar en el clavo appears in the other. Nor does he make the mistake of treating greed and greediness under one entry, while placing thrift and thriftiness...
...Crippling controls have been lifted from the backs of the American worker, consumer and businessman, while inflation has been halted, thrift put into federal operations and efficiency brought to Government." What remains to be done? In Teaneck, N.J. Nixon gave some answers. From a Republican Congress, he foresaw...
...that it was hard to tell whether they were kind or fierce. "Have you et?" he demanded gruffly. The boys said yes. "Have you watered?" They said yes. Then all three started off to the farm on foot. Once outside town, grandfather stopped and took off his boots-"for thrift," as he explained, since they were the only pair he had-and walked the rest of the way barefoot...
...Germanicized" . . . And German troops were stationed throughout France until it should be paid. So hated were the German garrisons, that the French went to work with a will−exports flowed out, gold flowed in, and within three years the indemnity had been paid . . . But, the spirit of thrift and hard work remained, and France came into her days of greatest power and wealth. "The next time Germany wins a war," said Bismarck, "we will pay an indemnity−we will not collect...
Humphrey had many volunteer advisers who assured him that the problem was not really as bad as it looked. Noting that federal spending in July was $674 million less than in July a year ago, they argued that if this rate of thrift could be maintained for six months, the Government would spend only about $32.5 billion in 1953's last half, v. $37.4 billion expected to be spent, and that the $5 billion difference would not only keep the debt below the $277 billion figure Humphrey had predicted by December, but under the $275 billion ceiling...