Word: trough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advice about a railroad station site, was told: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Mills's Second Arkansas District abounds in picturesque place names: Morning Sun is 75 miles from Evening Shade, and other places are named Joy. Romance, Rose Bud and Oil Trough. The son of a prosperous Kensett merchant and banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank. In 1938, Mills ran for the House of Representatives. He learned to hunker on the court house steps, to roll...
...Tito have in common with Hungary's boss, Janos Kadar, and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny (all were once locksmiths). His sidelights often illuminate the mood of a country more effectively than pages of analysis. Discussing West Germany's affluence, Gunther reports slyly that an elaborate marble trough in a restaurant washroom was for "gentlemen who had dined too well to vomit into...
Milton Friedman, University of Chicago: The trough of the recession will come some time this summer. The rate of change in the money supply turned upward in the middle of last year. Generally there is a lag of about ten to twelve months between such a turn and the trough of a business cycle...
...daily journalism put to a stern test, though he doesn't say so: "There has already been too much talk about 'saving the Tribune.' The Trib has a very sound base to operate on." Still a good daily, the Trib has fallen into an unprofitable trough between the towering New York Times (circ. 644,175), which has most of the class circulation, and the tabloid Daily News (2,021,395). The Sunday Trib is even more in need of rehabilitation - which may be one reason Whitney picked a magazine...
This figure, obtained trough a poll taken Tuesday in all House Dining Halls, constitutes more than 35 per cent of the 927 students who responded, and more than 10 per cent of all the students in the upper three classes...