Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus was the nation's fourth major steel strike since World War II signaled in the hours after Saturday midnight. Out of work were 650,000 members of the United Steelworkers of America, A.F.L.-C.I.O.; shut down by their strike were the mills of twelve companies that account for 90% of all U.S. steel production...
...never retreating from his belief that despite the A-bomb the Navy as a fighting and landing team should be the nation's first force. Then, in 1947, came a brain hemorrhage from which he recovered enough to write, with a collaborator, Fleet Admiral King, a third-person account in which, with typical reticence, little of his inner self was revealed. Its most poignant sentence (in the introduction): "It was only by the unanticipated timing of fate that any use was made of my experience...
Geologists have developed many theories to account for the ebb and flow of glaciers in Europe and North America. Some blame external causes, such as interstellar dust or changes in the earth's atmosphere. In Science, Professors (of geology) Maurice Ewing of Columbia University and William L. Bonn of Brooklyn College propound a theory of ice ages that requires no cause external to the earth and no change in the atmosphere...
...paper long enough to sell it. Six weeks ago, the City of Boston threatened to seize the Post's real estate if Fox did not pay up back taxes by mid-August. A fortnight ago, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service tied up the paper's bank account with a claim for $221,116 in unpaid withholding taxes from employees. Other creditors slapped other liens on the paper and its publisher, until he had to ask employees to wait several days extra for their weekly pay. Meantime, a Boston attorney named John S. Bottomly said that he was negotiating...
...Cypriot nationalists. The tip-off that the Cypriots were ready to talk had come in a letter from Archbishop Makarios to British Labor M.P. Francis Noel-Baker. Speaking of Cyprus Governor Sir John Harding's "pointless decision to exile me," Makarios wrote: "I shall bear no grudge on account of this action. It is possible that the talks will be resumed at the point where they were broken off. But in that case, why the sacrifice of so many human beings, both British and Cypriot? For the sake of prestige, pride and obstinacy? None of these sentiments is worth...