Word: borrow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...wants to fight inflation with credit curbs rather than price controls, started putting them into effect last week. By boosting the discount rate in the New York area from 1½% to 1¾%, the FRB, in effect, raised interest rates on commercial loans, thus made it harder to borrow money. Since the New York rate usually sets the pattern for the country, bankers expected a general rate rise soon...
...that they have been known to attack a man wearing a bright necktie with a design of hand-painted trout flies. Catt had just settled down to fish when a white-bearded old man came along, spoke sadly of his yearning to catch one last salmon and asked to borrow the rod & line. Catt had barely handed over the tackle when a fighting salmon shot out of the water, twisting & turning the line around the old man's whiskers. Quick-thinking Catt drew out a hunting knife, began to cut off the old man's beard. A meddlesome...
...great disappointment of the eleven Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians among the delegates, the constitution did not borrow from Hawaii's own Magna Carta, the "law of the splintered paddle."*After heated argument, it was struck from the preamble...
...called in a doctor; next day she called in more. "Then began that long journey which parents of such children know so well . . . We take our children over the surface of the whole earth, seeking the one who can heal. We spend all the money we have and we borrow until there is no one else to lend. We go to doctors good and bad, to anyone, for only a wisp of hope...
...keen eye for the drama of a small-town courtroom in the South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...