Word: groundedness
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The international currency system, like any currency system, is grounded in confidence and mutual acceptability; the currency used must be freely convertible into real goods and services, "legal tender for all debts, public and private." The dollar and the pound sterling have served this function between nations since the Bretton...
To most Americans, it seemed unbelievable that a U.S. vessel could be brazenly held up and taken captive on the high seas. Nothing remotely like it had happened since 1807, during the Napoleonic wars, when a British man o' war overtook the U.S.S. Chesapeake, searched her for deserters and...
It was the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and ruddy-cheeked Clifford who was selected by John F. Kennedy to program the takeover of power from President Eisenhower in 1960. And it was Clif ford's cool, analytical arguments against extending the 1965 Christmas pause in bombing North Viet...
Sir: You have correctly identified true American patriotism grounded in the purest motives and motivated by the loftiest ideas. Pity that we are blind to the truth and have not the ability poetically bemoaned by Robert Burns to see ourselves as others see us. THE REV. W. EUGENE HOUSTON Manhattan...
So far, canned-pear prices have risen 50%, and other fruits are increasing from 25% to 33%. This winter there may also be a shortage of such delicacies as canned fruit cocktail. If so, housewives can blame it on the grounded bees.