Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your article, I'm now a heroine. We've been holding demonstrations until every exposed part of my anatomy is covered with the mark of Zorro, hearts, and initials from most of the neighborhood children. Any mother can raise biscuits, but how many can raise welts on demand? Perhaps you could find a use for this talent? If I were still in school I'd make a terrific walking crib sheet...
...Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf did not demand. His explanation: "I did not ask for a standing vote because many of the young men were bucking their leaders and I didn't want to embarrass them...
Sounding occasionally like an announcer watching a three-legged horse win the Belmont Stakes, U.S. educators back from Russian tours report with awe and alarm that the Soviet schools are in some ways very good indeed. More strident cries rise from home-based critics, who demand that the U.S. get into the education race without delay. A more thoughtful reporting job is offered in The Big Red Schoolhouse (Doubleday; $3.95), a new book by Fred M. Hechinger, who helped write the Rockefeller report on U.S. education, The Pursuit of Excellence (TIME, July...
...Copper, a weak sister among metals, recovered to the point where domestic producers boosted prices 1? a Ib. to 30?, the highest level since mid-June 1957. Increased demand from automakers, electrical-equipment manufacturers and home builders led domestic producers to predict continuing recovery during the remainder of 1959. ¶Construction in January slipped slightly from December but still posted an all-time record for the month at $3.7 billion, v. $3.3 billion in 1958. ¶ Department-store sales as a measure of consumer confidence increased 8% from the comparable period in 1958. The full-month totals for January show...
...maturing debt and got a shock. It had hoped to persuade most of the holders of maturing issues, bearing 1⅞% and 2½% interest rates, to trade them in for new Government securities paying 3¾% and 4%. Instead, owners of more than 20% of the old issues demanded to be paid off in cash, the biggest such demand in six months. To help make up the difference, the Treasury must go to the public this week with a $1.5 billion emergency issue...