Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill sent him to North Africa as British political representative at the Allied headquarters of General Dwight Eisenhower. There, in two years of close cooperation, they became "Mac" and "Ike." Macmillan, who was taught French by his mother before he spoke English, was given a large measure of credit for patching up the truce between the feuding French Generals Giraud and De Gaulle. He moved on to head the Allied Control Commission in Italy, where he conducted the negotiations with Italy's Marshal Badoglio. Late in the war Macmillan was sent to Greece to mediate in the savage civil...
Such a program would also allow more flexibility in scheduling. Fulfilling prerequisite requirements for courses would be more likely to move smoothly if the undergraduate program were broken into 32 sections instead of eight. Students working on theses, or supposedly doing independent research for course reduction or tutorial-for-credit programs would be completely free to follow these interests for a short period, instead of finding that other course requirements drained their time and attention. Not least important, it might be possible to schedule vacations between courses, so that a vacation would become a real period of relaxation, free from...
...Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds, paid bills and shared in the credit for Alameda's thumping Republican majority...
...bigger decline than most. (Adman's rebuttal: Who knows how badly sales might have fared without Sullivan?) Arthur Godfrey argues that sponsors ought to judge shows by how the product is moving. But, say admen, most products are affected by too many variables for TV to get the credit...
...addition, he did not credit Gilmor with a takedown which he had made at the edge of the mat. These two points would have made the difference, for in the final period, Gilmor was forced to let his opponent escape in order to gain a takedown...