Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher Law. In San Pedro, Calif., after he shot and seriously wounded Robert Gant in a quarrel over a 50? debt, Army Sergeant Frederic W. West, 24, explained loftily to police: "I didn't shoot him for the 50? he owed me, but for the principle of the thing...
...Both branches voted to extend the present national-debt limit ($281 billion) for another year...
...departure Gaitskell's chance for promotion. For Bevan, it was a shrewd move. The election had cost him three of his top supporters in the House, and cut the majorities of others. It was no time to make a bid for power. And he had repaid a debt to Attlee, who saved him from expulsion last March. After a short debate, Bevan rose to ask Attlee: "Well, what is your answer?" Attlee rose. "Do you want me to stay?" he asked. The room rumbled approval. "Very well," he said, and that was that...
...with the federal share coming from regular appropriations. The program would have been placed outside the annual appropriations control of Congress, a surrender of power unlikely to appeal to Congressmen. Also, at George Humphrey's insistence, the road-building costs would not have been figured in the national debt. ("The end of honest bookkeeping," snapped Byrd...
Chief Crazy Horse (Universal-International) pays a Technicolor installment on Hollywood's mountain of debt to the American Indian: after years of getting clobbered, the redskins this time win three battles in a row over the U.S. cavalry. What's more, the embattled Sioux are given Victor Mature as their peerless leader, but sad to say, when silhouetted against the sky in war paint and feathers, Mature looks more like an aggrieved turtle than an eagle of the plains...