Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University will, if there is a sufficient demand, turn over to Dudley House next Fall a large residence at 1705 Massachusetts Ave., to be run as a second cooperative for undergraduates, Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, revealed yesterday...
...Dudley cooperative, each student would contribute two or three hours a week to the "cleaning, maintenance and improvement" of his House. He would also undertake an assignment of about twelve hours of "kitchen duty" each six weeks. "This seems a modest demand in view of the very low rent," Leighton commented...
WASHINGTON--Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan indicated Tuesday night the Soviet Union is standing firm on its demand for an end to four-power rule of Berlin...
...obvious in the sciences, but they are just as great in painting, music, writing and scholarship." In routine matters, they did still better. Veterans and their wives settled down and became the generation to cut the wartime divorce rate in half, raise the birth rate 26.2% in a decade, demand that schools teach their Johnnies how to read. Because unexpected millions of vets got to college, a college education became a near-necessity for their youngsters...
...Rich. As payment, the stars demand about half a movie's budget, and get most of it under the table ("black money") in order to bilk the tax collector. Although often of low-caste birth, they win such passionate public adulation (oddly mixed with India's idea that actresses are on a level with prostitutes) that they have to be constantly escorted by baton-swinging cops. "These are the new maharajahs," says one bitter moviemaker. "When I think of the money we gamble on them, I can't sleep...