Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...totally deformed the facts," but Mendes forbade its issuance. While Mendés' harried advisers went back to work, the seconds got together across the street from Maxim's to discuss weapons. At last the advisers produced a new version, criticizing L'Express' "fallacious account," and declaring that the Premier "deplored that inadmissible insinuations be leveled at the professional conscience" of someone who enjoyed the Premier's entire confidence. Faure was mollified, Servan-Schreiber was relieved that he would not be required to print a retraction. Late that night the seconds announced that "there...
...city councils are learning that slums are not only festering eyesores and schools for crimes but heavy burdens on city budgets. For example, Baltimore's slums produce only 6% of the city's revenues but take 45% of all the city's total budget. They account for 45% of Baltimore's major crimes and 55% of juvenile delinquency...
...last week, when the top story all over the world was developments in the Far East (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), N.Z.Z. characteristically handled it in a short wire-service story at the bottom of page two. It covered page one with a leisurely account of the opening of the British Parliament, a long book review of the third volume of Fritz Valjavec's ten-volume Historia Mundi and a discussion of German-Russian relations...
Nevertheless, the New Handbook makes gripping reading and is full of sleep-troubling facts about hangmanship, from an account of distinguished executioners who committed suicide to the sort of wood it is best to use for gallows (teak) to the best rope for hanging a man (¾-in. rope of five strands of Italian hemp...
Regrettably, modern warfare does not allow for a policy of pure defense. To be valid, any "line" theory must take into account activities on the other side of the line, such as pre-invasion troop concentrations and other threatening actions. With this in mind, the President has suggested that action might be taken if the Communists attempt to seize the key islands of Quemoy and Matsu. But he has not made this policy explicit, and to a certain extent has opened United States planning to the very charges of vagueness which it is now trying to avoid. For this reason...