Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Dobie's The Voice of the Coyote, which was reviewed in TIME, May 16, might cause some people to write their Congressmen and demand that the Fish & Wildlife Service stop killing coyotes...
...this hysteria come from? It was true that Harry Truman could hardly be blamed for Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's wild journey through the Atomic Energy Commission files with blunderbuss and loaded innuendo. Nor could he be blamed for the House Un-American Activities Committee's crass demand for a list of textbooks from 107 colleges (which Mr. Truman dismissed with an approving reference to a Washington Post cartoon...
...Ministers also settled the basic problems that had blocked an Austrian peace treaty. The West gave in to a Russian demand for $150 million, payable in six years. Russia would not claim any additional "German assets" in Austria, but would keep the ones she had already seized. In exchange, the Russians with drew their support of a Yugoslav claim to some Austrian territory and reparations. The Yugoslavs would long ago have given up their claim had Russia not deliberately kept it alive for bargaining purposes...
...postwar shortage of goods, the fact is that the overpriced pound was not a disadvantage. Buyers wanted the goods badly enough to buy, no matter what the price tags said. Now, however, world production is catching up with demand. Sellers have to compete because buyers turn away from the high price tags...
...marriage of the year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says married & divorced Ham Fisher, who takes Palooka as seriously as his most ardent fan: "They're going to be the ideally happy couple...