Word: amends
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...conservative Republicans, Southern Democrats and, paradoxically, sometime internationalist supporters of foreign aid whose aversion to the Viet Nam war has converted them in some measure to a form of isolationism. For four days, Democratic floor managers steered the bill through an obstacle course of debate and dozens of amend ments, virtually all of them designed to trim foreign aid funds or tie strings to their use. On the fourth night the House went into marathon session...
...prospect is for favorable House action this year. If the bill is finally enacted, it will by no means repeal Barnum's law that a sucker is born every minute, but it may at least amend it to let the boob know for just how much he is being taken...
...church serious? Does it expect its members to begin now to amend their lives, do justly, and love mercy? Does it expect people who hold power in corporations, universities, and governments to listen to its witnesses and respond...
...Faculty voted at its May 16 meeting to amend the paragraph about student voluntary withdrawals that now appears in the Regulations for Students at Harvard College...
...military services, a situation of which Thomas Jefferson took a dim view. Practitioners of organized religion get special rates on transport, entertainment and in many other areas, which amounts to a subsidy from taxpayers. And now we have Dirksen, the Charles Laughton of the Senate, crusading to amend the Constitution in favor of school prayer...