Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More economies were in the offing as the week went by. Postmaster General John Gronouski emerged from a ranch-house session to announce that his department's budget request had been cut back by $200 million, and that measures were afoot to whack $100 million off the Post Office's chronic deficit next year, thus effecting an equivalent $100 million saving in the federal budget. Johnson himself disclosed that several hundred million dollars each had been pared off next year's budgets for the Agriculture Department, Atomic Energy Commission and National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...experiment, the program was nourished along this year with a $39,500 grant from the Harkness Foundation, and was expanded to fill the "dark" Monday nights of the park's Shakespeare Festival. The season was such a success with the crowds that plans are already afoot to extend it to two full weeks at next summer...
...speeches during his eleven-day visit. He comes with a private diplomatic mission from Pope John. In Washington, through unofficial intermediaries, Bea will let the White House know the reasoning behind Pope John's surprising new willingness to negotiate with Communism, perhaps explain what further diplomatic moves are afoot. "The U.S. is angry now," the cardinal told a friend in Rome before his trip. "I'm afraid they will soon be angrier...
Around the world, there were unmistakable signs that something was afoot...
...decreasing undergraduate enthusiasm for joining fraternities. The total number of men being "rushed" last fall was the lowest in five years. The houses are reportedly filled to only 77 per cent of capacity, and some are in serious difficulty. Fraternity alumni, alarmed at the trend, see a nefarious plot afoot. Joseph Hinshaw past President of the Illinois Bar Association, recently discussed the problems facing fraternities today and called upon them to utilize their "basic strengths-their family-like unity, their selectiveness, and their high standards of conduct-to face hostile leftist forces...