Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collected $1,200,000 at a pledge dinner, this year got only $75,000. Through the Midwest, Old Guard Republican organizations are busy wreaking vengeance on Eisenhower Republicans, and the Ikemen are getting no help from Washington. Many a GOPolitico is convinced that the President is no longer an asset. Said a top-ranking Colorado Republican last week: "The President will always have some popularity, but if I were a candidate, I wouldn't want to tie myself to his coattails." Added a Californian: "Ike hinders us today. His speech was a step in the right direction...
...these measures, the urgency of which the Masters are well aware, will come to nothing if admissions expand faster than housing. An admissions policy geared to the University's capacities rather than its hopes will prevent seniors from leaving and thus weakening the University's best asset--the House system...
...this world, a loud voice was a woman's greatest asset. She had to shout down her neighbors, truckdrivers, vendors, her children, and the incessant roar of an impatient city. Her life was plagued by overripe oranges, burned bread, and defective scales...
...having the Capitol Hill liason group which aided Roosevelt's New Deal, the President will have to take very personal charge of his program. The Vice President will undoubtedly be an asset to him, and it would seem that Senate Republicans will cooperate with the White House, at least until the budget for economic aid is brought up. Then Senator Knowland might make a play, for the mutual assistance doctrine is one which no amount of forcible reteration seems to be able to put across. The President certainly gave it his strongest plug to date, but without giving it continued...
...bonus choice, given to one team a year in an order determined by lot, came to the Cardinals by fortunate coincidence at a time when their quarterbacks were in desperately short supply. So they picked Hill for their bonus, knowing that they could also draft Crow, an asset for any team, however rich in halfbacks...