Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For Stark, the scoop was a valedictory. Last week, after 28 years in the rough & tumble of the union beat, ailing Reporter Stark, 62, left the Times's Washington bureau for a month's vacation. On his return he will take up the easier chore of writing Times editorials and interpretive articles...
With the House off on a three-week holiday, Senators bent their backs to a grueling double chore. One was the job of cutting expenditures, in which President Truman, continually suggesting ways to spend money, gave little help. The other was to squeeze out of the taxpayers, without squeezing them dry, enough new funds to meet the huge Government outlays...
...Defense Secretary Marshall "defended the many administration policies, in the formulation of which he had presumably played a part." He seemed peculiarly "uninformed" and inclined to shunt many of the questions to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who sometimes seemed embarrassed by the chore of supporting...
...things, grandfather Foster's turbine actually was just at the beginning of something new. In March 1950, at the insistence of Arthur Vandenberg, Dulles was restored to a position in the State Department. Dean Acheson assigned him to the job of formulating the treaty for Japan, a chore which had been on the back burner for almost three years. The Pentagon was not sure that it ever wanted to see Japan turned loose-at least...
While lawyers were holding transatlantic conferences over her divorce demands from Aly Khan, Rita Hayworth turned working girl again (at $252,000 a year plus 25% of the net profit on her pictures) and checked into Columbia studio for her first chore: five hours of color-camera posing for magazine covers...