Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they will name some such candidate as Sena tor Symington of Missouri, Governor Lausche of Ohio or Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas. If the big boys privately decide that they can't beat Ike in '56, watch for the nomination of the boy with the big bank account, New York's Averell Harriman...
...town of Kythrea during a service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while he was in the act of chanting the Gospel-apparently on account of Pierides' British sympathies. A policeman was shot to death in a cafe; two more British soldiers were killed...
...rise in the cost of living), while in the same period junior faculty salaries have about doubled. Such a situation, in which the top man in the profession rarely earns much more than twice as much as the bottom man, according to the Committee, fails to take into full account a man's years of service and the skill which won him his position as a full professor. This is a break with Harvard's tradition of recognizing individual excellence: it is in sharp contrast with the practice in other professions which enables them to draw many of the best...
Last October a Committee on Compensation began a study of the problem which culminated in its recent report to President Pusey. Without the businessman's expense account to avoid taxes, the Committee has come up instead with a plan of fringe benefits for increasing the payroll by approximately 10 per cent, or $480,000 per year. The problem now lies in distributing these funds in a way which will meet the most pressing needs of professors. Under the recommended plan, with the exception of a scholarship plan for faculty children and a transitional retirement program, faculty members at each rank...
...page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they would get from most textbooks. Unfortunately, the frequent appearances of Caroline, strangling her ravishers with whips and pointing loaded pistols at them from her naked hip, make this novel unsuitable for school study...