Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could have mentioned that Adlai Stevenson was for the suspension of such tests back...
...American people sit back and allow Hoffa and his gang to corrupt America's labor and laborer...
...Pressure. Some world bankers were skeptical of such a fund when first proposed because it smacked too much of funny money. But more of them have been coming round to the view that such a fund is necessary to finance vitally needed development programs that the bank cannot back because they contain individual projects that will not pay off. With the proposed new fund, the bank, for example, could finance a dam, while the IDA could finance nonself-liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would lessen...
...public school teacher (Stowe), Tim White is still a hawk when it comes to learning, will shortly disgorge a bookful of myths and legends about Ireland. After that, he plans to return to the Arthurian cycle. It is no mere escapism that drives him back, but what a friend calls "his dedication to the cause of gentleness." Facing 20th century life, Terence Hanbury White finds himself, more than ever, agreeing with Malory's publisher Caxton on the virtues that might redeem the time: "Chyvalrye, curtoyse, humanyte, frendlynesse, hardynesse, love...
...Czar and his family. The Bolsheviks later executed five responsible for the massacre, establishing a tradition-elimination of witnesses-that would cost many of the Reds their own lives. Concludes Moorehead: 'The wheel had now turned almost full cycle from [Czar] Nicholas to Lenin, from autocracy back to autocracy again . . . Bread and Peace' had been at the heart of the party's program from the beginning. What Russia was now about to receive was famine and civil...