Word: gear
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...price structure is out of gear. I never favored subsidies but they have become a part of this tottering price edifice. I would continue those now in effect. I would give no more...
...saccharine bit of professional whimsy purporting to show how the late Flo Ziegfeld is getting along in heaven. (Director Minnelli" thinks he is doing all right, puts Ziegfeld on the same cloud level as Shakespeare.) Once this pious bow to the Master has been made, Follies slips into high gear, runs through one unrelated vaudeville act after another. Among the best...
...steel strike had cut this production, small as it was, even more. Now that the strike was over, said Small, "The thawing of this winter's labor-management freeze-up should enable manufacturers to move rapidly into high gear." Would it? Few businessmen thought...
...cold morning of their postwar poverty, other nations understood themselves better. In Washington another traveler mused. Energetic, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, leader of the House of Commons, declared: "We [Britons] haven't properly got used to [peace] and often have to think twice when an automobile in low gear makes a noise like a siren. . . . We still can't afford to light shop windows at night or allow electricity to be used for advertising signs...
...using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly up to ten, then puts his reel in gear and hauls, back to set the hook...