Word: underwritten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hounded by fear. While the first attempt was confused and shadowy, the new story, dealing with three murky characters who hound a Greenwich Village habitue back to his Albany home for a practical joke, has a basis in realistic motives and comprehensible feelings. The mounting tension is skilfully underwritten, and the success of the work is dependent on the right refusal of the author to employ any of the tricks of emotional writing...
...they cut down competition, Landis now suggested that mergers might be the best way to keep some airlines out of bankruptcy. More cheering was a strong hint that increases in passenger and mail rates might be in the offing. CABoss Landis sternly warned that "management inefficiency" would not be underwritten by subsidies or higher rates. But at week's end he ordered an investigation to see if current rates are "unjust or unreasonable...
...figures, and where the University of Michigan provides a concert series at low price on a semi-monthly basis, Harvard undergraduates must search about and spend a good deal of money to enjoy the same benefits. It is true that opportunities do exist, but they are not publicized and underwritten to a degree necessary for wide appeal and continued success...
...will return to civilian life in the coming year, and those honorably discharged are eligible to apply for loans. But last week the Veterans Administration said it had guaranteed only 738 G.I. Bill loans for businesses, only 270 for farms (but 11,220 for homes). Total amount underwritten...
Urgent Adjuration. When he came to the subject of Poland, it was evident that Winston Churchill had, in effect, underwritten Russia's Polish solution. He urgently adjured Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to return to Poland to head the Polish Government, gave the London Poles a sharp reprimand for not having come to terms with Russia sooner. Said Churchill: "I hope Mr. Mikolajczyk will soon return to Moscow, and it will be a great disappointment to all sincere friends of Poland if a good arrangement cannot be made which will enable them to form a Polish Government on Polish soil...