Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conduct, but recent abuses and want of good sense and taste have shown the need for uniform authorized rules by Congress as a whole. Senate and House investigations presumably point toward some specific legislation, but with at leas three committee chairmen aiming at, and producing little but headlines, blanket restrictions are overdue...
...recital. One reason went back to prewar Germany: in 1935, as a 19-year-old music student in Berlin's Hochschule fur Musik, she became a leader in the Nazi Studentenbund. Thereafter her career blossomed; throughout the war she was a favorite of German audiences. Eventually, after the blanket denazifications of 1946, she returned to the musical stage in Vienna...
...second failure of the Senate bill is that it gives the committee, not the law enforcing agencies, the final decision on who will receive immunity. With this blanket protection, a man granted immunity could throw any confession from tax evasion to murder into his testimony and free himself from prosecution by so doing. In the late nineteenth century, under the first compulsory testimony act, such "immunity baths" were common and often saved witnesses from charges being prepared by government attorneys. The Attorney General, who handles these cases, then, is a far better judge of immunity grants than the committee...
...with her (TIME, Oct. 12). She took Bobby to Hall, who was waiting several blocks away in her station wagon. Then, according to her original story to police, she went shopping, returned to drive with Hall to St. Joe and noticed a large bundle under a blanket on the vehicle floor; Hall told her it was "dog food...
...retention of old perquisites, such as commissaries; a consistent personnel policy with unchanging limits for pensions and retirement; a greater effort, from the top down, to enforce discipline and give troops stronger leadership-pride in a military unit is often a good substitute for big pay in a blanket factory...