Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blanco has spent more than half his life fighting dictatorship. He began writing poetry at 14, at 27 won a 25,000-peseta ($3,250) award from the Royal Spanish Academy. Long before that, he was deep in the revolutionary movement against Dictator Juan Vicente...
...matter how good the music was, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's trustees weren't willing to go deep into debt to pay for it. To get back in the black, they chopped three weeks off the coming season-even though the season was already barely long enough to keep many of the players going. Said Conductor Fritz Reiner, "I am willing to have my salary cut. I am not willing to have the orchestra cut." So last week he quit...
Despite the LeCorbeillers deep interest in General Education the master of the house can easily be distracted. Just confront him with one of two listeners and a black board and both chalk and an excited index finger will start wagging as Philippe LeCorbeiller takes a long, penetrating glance at a world that is a long long...
...that they had a responsibility beyond making money for their stockholders. Said he: "Apparently the steel industry does not yet realize.. . . that its decisions on prices must be in the public interest as well as its private interest." A top Republican policymaker in Congress, who had been neck-deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly announced that "two or three typical steel leaders " would be called on the carpet of Congress' Joint Economic Committee this week to explain their...
...vote meant that British doctors, already patella-deep in socialized medicine, were not enthusiastic about getting in up to their necks. At present, 17,000 of Britain's 21,000 general practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes...