Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hildy McCoy's future happiness going to depend upon her mother's retroactive conscience? The fact that Hildy was born out of wedlock automatically eliminates the vague legal implications of the Roman Catholic prenuptial contract...
Bulganin, as Premier, officially heads the mission, and thus a great deal at Geneva may depend on the character and personality of this 60-year-old marshal. Only in recent months, in the searching and candid lens of foreign cameras, has the world had a good look at him. All his life he has served Communism and his country-as policeman and purger, businessman and bureaucrat, Defense Minister and Premier. Yet, until six months ago, he has made little more impact on the Western world than a splendidly caparisoned beefeater, opening and closing the door through which more ambitious...
When he was a candidate for President, no argument was used against him more than the economic issue. Democratic campaigners recalled the pain of the great Depression, and asked whether a Republican President-particularly one who had little experience in civilian life and would have to depend on G.O.P. fiscal advisers-would bring on another depression. "Don't let them take it away...
...judge by the Navy's experience, many of the worst effects will not appear for weeks. The number of deaths, near-deaths and disfigurements will depend on how well the people have avoided radiation and have decontaminated themselves, and on how promptly they-have received good medical care...
...cards, still in the hope of receiving 500 back. Professor G. H. Edgell, Dean of the School of Architecture, praised the effort, and remarked that he didn't "know whether the new hall is more necessary for health or sociability. It is needed for both. It's success will depend, however, entirely on the students. It would be worse than useless to try and coerce or wheedle the students into lunching and dining like civilized beings...