Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic purpose is to assure that Formosa and the Pescadores will not be forcibly taken over by the Chinese Communists. However, Foreign Minister Chou, of the Communists, said that they will use all their forces to take Formosa, and they treat the coastal islands as means to that...
...telephone Dr. Lavezzi demurred. It was late, he said, and he had to get up early next day to treat an out-of-town patient. Giovanna's sister-in-law told Lavezzi that they would get another doctor and called Dr. Luigi Gardin, obstetrical consultant at Venice's Ospedale al Mare. Gardin agreed to come, told Giovanna's husband Carlo to meet him at a square near his house. Ricci waited at the appointed place for 40 minutes, then telephoned Gardin again. The doctor's excuse: "I don't have the instruments...
...coffee drinkers got a welcome treat last week. After Brazil cut the minimum export price to 53.8? a lb. (v. 87? last June), prices tumbled to the lowest levels in more than a year. General Foods Corp., biggest U.S. roaster, clipped 5? off the price of Maxwell House, pushed the wholesale price down to 97?. A. & P. Co. slashed its Eight O'Clock coffee from 89? to 79? a lb. Standard Brands cut 10? a lb. off Chase & Sanborn...
...other novelty was Handle's Harp Concerto in B-flat. Soloist Sally Day traversed her fiendishly difficult part with ease and grace. The total effect was a treat to the car, and to the eye as well...
...been as indispensable as "refreshes" in its slogan. It was Ernest Woodruff, a Southern financier, who bought the company in 1919 (for $25 million) and started its expansion. Four years later he turned it over to his hustling son Robert, who soon changed Coke from a corner-drugstore treat into one of the world's most widely sold products. In 1939 Woodruff became chairman of the executive committee, but remained top boss while presidents came and went. This week, 65, Coke's retirement age, Woodruff at last stepped out (he will remain a director and a large stockholder...