Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process of giving away U.S. money to strengthen friendly foreign governments sometimes seems to have a built-in mechanism of self-defeat...
...into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...
...sweetener to veteran-conscious Congress,* the bill would boost some 55% of the present, inflation-shrunken pension checks at a cost of an added $100 million the first year. But it offers the first promising check on the automatic boosters built into pension laws...
After the film clips of concentration camps with their crematoriums, Judgment built to its climax in a live scene in which an American judge (Claude Rains) faces the Nazi jurist (Paul Lukas) whom he has sentenced to life imprisonment. "How in the name of God," asks Rains, "can you ask me to understand the extermination of men, women and innocent children in ______?" For an odd moment the sound went off. Rains's lips moved, but no words came. The missing words: "gas ovens." The show's sponsor, who insisted on the fadeout in sound: the American Gas Association...
...Crimson took a lead on the start and very early built it up to half a length--about 30 feet--although the Big Red crew did not drop its stroke after the racing start for about a quarter of a mile. But with both boats rowing between 31 and 32 through the middle of the race, Cornell pulled even with the Crimson shell, stroked by Capt. Mark Hoffman...