Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still tight. "I believed that what watertight integrity she possessed would collapse," he said, "sinking her immediately." The vessel's owners urged Carlsen by radio against "further risking your life." When the message was relayed, a new storm was smashing the ship, but he replied: "I am remaining till vessel saved or sunk...
...young actress are instantly and passionately drawn to each other. They spend an ecstatic 24 hours in a grubby Marseille hotel until, her past catching up with her, the girl flees and is killed. The lover has the chance to regain his Eurydice in life by shunning her face till dawn. He looks too soon, but has now the chance-which he embraces-of joining her in death...
...Johnson Lumber Corp., one of the biggest and most profitable in the Northwest, had a vexatious problem: too much cash on hand and more profits pouring in from its huge timber stands. If the $6,375,000 in cash and Government bonds in the company till was paid out in dividends to the Johnson family, which controlled the company, most would go for income taxes. The Johnsons talked their problem over with another lumberman, 48-year-old Owen Cheatham, president of the Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. Cheatham had worries also...
...will also take over the Johnson company's excess-profits tax base of $2,000,000, will thus be able to keep a bigger chunk of future profits. Better still, Georgia-Pacific picked up the $6,375,000 in cash and bonds in the Johnson company's till, thus cutting its actual outlay by a third...
...Abbondio, for example, is no stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call for. Manzoni...