Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This latest batch of scrolls included two made of copper. The uneasy task of unrolling the brittle metal has taken until recently to complete. Incredible secrecy has surrounded the job; John Allegro, 32-year old lecturer in Semitic philology at the University of Manchester, is in charge and has hinted that the contents are "astonishing." The privilege of announcing what it says will be left to the Jordan government, and a dramatic, simultaneous release from Jerusalem, Washington and London is expected by scholars in the early summer. Some speculate that the copper scroll contains a map locating the Essenes' treasures...
...well he might. His actual political base in Parliament is so narrow that the first misstep is likely to send him tumbling. A huge chunk of supporting votes (150) came from the Communists, whose support Socialist Mollet disavowed. Another big batch came from enemies who felt that the least they could do for their country, while deciding how best to unseat Mollet, was to save France from the fate of a government coming into power solely because of Communist votes...
...first 20 days. These are not East Germany's aged, tired and homeless; most are hard-working farmers and factory employees fleeing excessive work norms, or young men who want to escape the draft (the East German army was officially proclaimed last week). Among the latest batch seeking sanctuary in the West: three judges of the Communist courts, two professors, three senior government officials, the woman boss of a steel works...
...November most arguments were threshed out, and the bureau examiners went upstairs to defend their figures before the Director's Review, presided over by Hughes's deputy, Percival Brundage (ex-senior partner of the Price Waterhouse accounting firm). Some half-dozen times Hughes snapped the latest batch of approved budgets into a notebook, and took them to Gettysburg for presidential approval. When the President would give "his O.K., Hughes would write the agency head what is called an "allowance letter," stating the presidential-approved figure. Only six budgetary points went over his head to the President, and these...
Marx has puffed his way through Webster in twelve years. Now, on the second time around, his favorite expression is Dum Vivimus, Vivamus, which can be freely translated as "Live It Up." He found the exhortation so appealing that he had it embroidered on a batch of silk neckties that he gives away. His newest favorite word is "charismatic," a theological adjective pertaining to one who has a divine endowment to carry on the work to which he was called. Understandably. Marx caused a sensation when he applied the word to Ike at a White House dinner before...