Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrialist-President, is determined to run his country on the same hardheaded business principles that he formerly used to run its prosperous paper monopoly. Last week a broadside bill giving Alessandri absolute control of Chile's economy for one year sailed through the Senate and headed back to the Chamber of Deputies for approval of its Senate-added amendments...
...Pledged free elections, heard his supporters roar back, "No elections!" Replied the Prime Minister piously: "This shows to what extent politics have become discredited in Cuba...
...dialogue. It has been checkered with clichés, mired in sentimental mush, drowned in tears and flapdoodle ... If my remarks have hurt Brown, that can only prove that football is more sanctified than any of us has estimated. The only way to really help is to bring football back into the dialogue, to subject it to all the resources of the dialogue, including wit, humor, paradox...
...penniless and alone, when he arrived in 1906 from Russia. A gnome of a man, Charles Fraiman put a pack on his back and peddled old clothes from door to door in the outskirts of Philadelphia, until he had enough money to buy a horse and wagon and go into the junk business. He used to say he made $1.50 a day-50? for his horse, 50? for himself, and 50? for his savings...
...Veeck, "being in baseball is like taking dope," and now that he is back, he has marijuana-sized dreams for the White Sox. Chicago is a potential gold mine, says Veeck: "Industry is diversified so that if one sector of the economy is hurting, it doesn't kill you like it would in Detroit or Pittsburgh." He intends to pull all the stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies...