Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last resort, Bissell went to see Bingham. Bingham said "no." He said "no" because the HAA is in a hole, because not enough people play polo to justify the expense, and because other sports already have priority on any windfalls the HAA collects...
...weeks of day & night sessions by Peron's new National Economic Council had done little to stem the nation's tide of red ink. As a last resort, the council decided that Argentina would just have to borrow a lot of dollars. But from whom? With Argentines already owing U.S. businessmen an estimated $400 million, private U.S. banks were unlikely to put up any more. Nor was the World Bank, which Argentina had steadily snubbed, or the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
Czechoslovakia's Premier Antonin Zapotocky showed up for the winter sports at a resort in eastern Bohemia...
...balloons, there is much use of puns ("very-close veins"), but even more painful than that is the constant resort to New Haven, Connecticut for the setting of any situation involving actual or implied sexual orgies. This quite possibly flushes fresh life into some of the wilted egos down there, but isn't it rather absurd...
Judging by its appearance in Holiday, Harvard had now attained a new status. Descriptions like "Den of Dolts" and "Cloister of Cerebrums" were now old hat. Harvard had become a Resort, and Vag was dumbfounded. Why hadn't someone tipped him off sooner? Why had he gone on believing that Harvard was a struggle, an endurance test, an academic hoop race? Now it turned out that Vag, the academic renegade, had been the only one on the right track and had never realized his good fortune...