Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization of higher education in the U.S.S.R., says: "Science is the discipline of the 20th century"; Health Specialist Alexander Markov, 58, public health expert, who has since January 1954 headed the Health Ministry department that services the Kremlin, hence is the man who must sign the death certificates of dead Communist leaders...
...White House Mimeograph machine one morning last week before Congress had even sent him the bill to be rejected: the $1.2 billion rivers and harbors appropriation, almost exactly the same old vote-catching "pork barrel" smashed by the 144th veto two weeks earlier. This time, Ike knew, Democrats were dead certain that they could muster the necessary two-thirds to override-and end-the remarkable string of unbeaten Eisenhower vetoes...
...Raised, after months of dead-against opposition, the federal excise tax on motor fuels by 1? (Ike asked for 1½?) to finance the fund-short, 41,000-mile highway program. Result: the gas tax goes to 4? Oct 1. ¶Rejected again the Administration demand for abolition of interest-rate limits on Government bonds, thus left Treasury unable to manage the $290 billion public debt effectively in today's high, changing money market (see BUSINESS). In a minor concession, a House-Senate conference boosted the 3.26% ceiling on popular E and H savings bonds to 4.25%, thus permitting...
...idly looking out a window when he wheeled unsteadily toward his companion with a wordless appeal in his eyes, obviously ill. Plagued for years with diabetes, he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the first of four that were to strike him in 24 hours. This week Premier Duplessis was dead...
Without doubt, wrote Martin Luther, ";confession of sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments" But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before receiving Communion. Confession, he felt, should be voluntary, and Christians must be clear that their absolution comes only from God; otherwise, he argued, confession becomes an instrument of oppression in the hands of the church. Luther's own formula for absolution: "Dost thou believe that my forgiveness is God's forgiveness?" (Penitent answers yes). "As thou believest, so shall it come to pass. By command of our Lord...