Word: checked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making such a gullible spectacle of itself, the U.S. press had only its own bad reporting to blame. A cursory check in Washington would have disclosed that Racey Jordan had been trying to peddle his story for nearly a month, and reputable news organizations had turned it down because it was contradictory and full of holes. As an excuse for being taken in, some news editors fell back on the old alibi that they were merely being "objective" and printing the day's news without taking any sides. Actually, such "objectivity" meant that the shrieking headlines and deadpan stories...
Voters are to check 12 names on each ballot. The returns will be counted by juniors and sophomores at the Student Council office...
...more than manpower and materials go into medical research. When, for example, the Rockefeller Foundation gives the School some money, the grant comes on a project basis, with a long string of Greek words stipulating what the money will be spent for. The School is left to sign the check for what officials term the "intangibles"--chief among them, spending time to organize the project and the providing of the space to carry it out. What happens is that for each $1.00 of gift money received, the School is often left to pay out $1.05, $1.40, or perhaps even more...
...money, and raised $200,000 from friends. He needed another $150,000, and he borrowed it from the contractor who was to build the hotel. Then he ran out of money and his troubles began. When a secretary mistakenly mailed a $50,000 check to pay a plumber's bill, Hilton dashed to a friend who knew the postmaster to get the check back before it was delivered. Without being asked, the friend lent Hilton $50,000 to cover the check. When Hilton ran out of money again, he went back to his landlord and persuaded him to finish...
Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with...