Word: put
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...unseen father of the film Where's Poppa? must have read Ralph Nader's latest report before he made his sons promise him on his deathbed that they would never put their mother in an old folks' home. For, as Nader made clear last week in a report to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Momma may be far better off sharing an apartment with a homicidal son than in many of the nation's 24,000 nursing homes...
...hard to find that the pros often pick another interior lineman to fill the post. This year is no exception. Thompson, who played center in his junior year, moved over to offensive guard this season while filling in at center on punts and place kicks. As one observer put it: "He's so big he can stand straight up after centering the ball and become a screen for the quarterback...
...easiest way to put people back to work is to put more money into the economy. That can be done by expanding the budget deficit or increasing the money supply, or by using a combination of both. In either case the President's power is limited. He can increase the budget only if Congress agrees, and he may well run into resistance from Capitol Hill's fiscal conservatives, as well as from Democratic liberals who are not at all eager to help his re-election drive. One possibility is that Nixon will offer only token opposition to spending...
This year the American consumer has been saving at an unprecedented rate of 7.3% of his income, and banks have tried to attract more deposits by offering gifts like appliances, luggage and wigs for women. The average American family has a fat $7,610 put away in savings accounts. Usually, a lot of money begins to burn a hole in the consumer's pocket, and a splurge of spending begins. But the usual consumer psychology may have changed. Last week George Katona, a consumer expert who heads the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, reported that the consumer...
...everything important about him. In fact, it was precisely the important things that they did not know. They did not know about the rat-ridden London warehouse that sagged over the Thames and was called Warren's Blacking Factory. At age twelve, Dickens was yanked from school and put to work there while his father and the rest of the family went into debtors' prison. So traumatic was his sense of shock and abandonment that although the experience lasted no more than five months, as a grown man he still would burst into tears whenever he found himself...