Word: cancellation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of the new prices would not be anywhere near that low, and some would not change at all. Scotch distillers, who were already selling as much whiskey to the U.S. as they could make (3,000,000 cases a year), promptly upped their export prices 30% to cancel out the entire slash in the pound. Many another British maker of goods with a steady U.S. demand upped his prices anywhere from...
Because one of its players has contracted a "mild" case of infantile paralysis, Yale yesterday called off Saturday's varsity football game with Fordham and indicated that it may have to cancel next week's Columbia game as well...
...players listen only to the right tackle, and let the left tackle chatter his deception signals unheeded. If the right tackle sees the "3 hole" is clogged, he may cry "Up two," and play "43" becomes "45." If the defense shifts heavily to the "play" side, he may shout "Cancel," whereupon the quarterback calls "Opposite," and the play hammers at the other side of the line. Obviously, Notre Dame tackles need to be quick-witted as well...
Superstitions sometimes cancel each other out. The Duke of Wellington, who believed that putting a pair of shoes on a table meant that their owner would be hanged, once fired a servant for jeopardizing a young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep...
...subtle and much-used trick is to neutralize an unpleasant odor. How this works is uncertain, but odor engineers have found many "odor pairs," i.e., smells that cancel each other. The smell of cedarwood, for instance, cancels the smell of rubber. Many offensive-smelling commodities are marketed at present with their natural odors neutralized by an odor antagonist...