Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Medical School will build the first comprehensive Medical Library in the Boston area, probably within the next five years, it was learned yesterday. Dean Berry announced recently to the Faculty of Medicine that the long-awaited decision had been taken. More definite plans for the library will be revealed as soon as the necessary funds for operation and maintenance of the Library are raised, Berry indicated...
...August 9, 1955, President Eisenhower signed into law a Reserve Rorces Act (RFA-55) that was to "build and maintain powerful civilian reserves immediately capable of effective military service in an emergency." One of the Act's provisions for building up these "powerful" reserves was through the direct enlistment of men for six months active duty followed by longer periods in the Ready Reserve. This six-month soldier is differentiated from draftee and regular Army personnel by the abbreviation, "RFA," after the law that spawned...
...almost been brought to the ground, which is already scattered with the bones of some of its most notable members . . . The policy of Fanfani is a phony socialism, with echelons of plans and reforms favorable only to monopolistic groups . . . Christian Democracy spells zero, and on zero you can build nothing. Our place is in the opposition." Furthermore, declared Nenni: "Prejudice and antagonism against Communism is out of the question...
Clearly taken by surprise, Prince Souphanouvong was able to muster only 16 of the 47 Assemblymen present to oppose the Premier. Armed with his new mandate, Phoui Sananikone promised Laotians a new constitution, pledged that the royal government would build dams and roads, improve communications, seek foreign investments. He would rule, said the Premier, through the "two essential motors" of an independent state: the army and the civil service...
Tiny Ted Atkinson was 20 years old and making little progress as a $35-a-week shipping clerk in a Brooklyn chemical plant when a truck driver friend suggested that his build (5 ft. 2 in., 100 Ibs.) was ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride...