Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of controlling wartime inflation required courage and brains, but there was a shortage of both in the bill. No amount of political abracadabra could obscure the simple truth: that if costs and prices are permitted to zoom, inflation will result...
...struggled on," said McCullough afterward, "in a series of furious silences. ..." But Any Questions? soon began to zoom into popularity. People liked salty Commander Campbell (" 'e's not so dumb, 'e's just got common sense instead of heducation."). They liked goat-bearded Cyril Joad because he could and would talk beautifully about anything. They liked Huxley for his precise knowledge (after a brilliant disquisition by Joad on "What is Love?" Scientist Huxley gave a direct biological answer...
...where are we now, as if you'd know?" Mac, indignantly: "I ken fine where we are. We're approaching Karlsruhe-famous for its breweries, you know." "O.K., let's go down and smell its breath." Over the target the mood changes. Flak (antiaircraft) and tracers zoom upward in great, searing arcs, phosphorescent balls of fire in the black night. Starting slowly, they pick up tremendous speed, whoof past the bomber like heaven-bent rockets...
Deficit: $6,289,440,970 this year, $9,310,093,049 next. Public debt, now about $45,000,000,000, would zoom over $49,000,000,000 by July 1, might top $58,000,000,000 by July 1, 1942. The President questioned the meaning of a legal debt limit, hinted that there should be no legal limit...
...South Africa, Boer farmers who snared storks arriving on their annual 7,000-mile migration from Holland, found attached to their legs such messages as: "We inhabitants of Bergen-op-Zoom tell you German occupation is just hell...