Word: amounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popped irrepressible M.P. Emrys Hughes to ask what amount Rees-Davies had charged the girl for his professional services? "Never mind about that," snapped the barrister. The gleeful Hughes then accused Lawyer Rees-Davies of also living on the girl's earnings, and the House rocked with laughter...
...England college presidents yesterday protested--some of them bitterly--the way in which the National Defense Student Loan Program recently allotted grants for long-term student loans. In Massachusetts, for example, the Program simply awarded to each institution about 10 per cent of the amount it requested, thus rewarding those that asked for the most, and penalizing those that made smaller applications...
Each House will receive a slightly different amount under the new plan. The Masters maintained that the sums would be "adequate" to continue rent subsidies for some students, and did not indicate that the adjustment program would be cut down...
...government officials and the nude dancing girls. I guess the issue was a little too crowded to squeeze that in too. But I am glad you could give two-thirds of a page to the rumors about the Shah of Iran and that exiled Italian princess and a similar amount of space to that Polish refugee novelist Hlasko. He sounds like a real interesting guy and I'm glad to see some coverage of his activities in Germany rather than any of this dull stuff about German reunification. The same goes for the story on the princess. Who wants...
...saving the U.S. from bankruptcy. He darts back and forth among his 14 subcommittees, bent forward, as one Capitol staffer puts it. at a 45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat ax to the foreign aid bill (the Senate restored some of the cut). He held Passman up to the full committee as a shining example...