Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asserting that "we can no longer depend on the Supreme Court to save us from the actions of irresponsible legislatures," Howe spoke at a Liberal Union forum on the "Case of the Legless Veteran." James Kutcher, the legless veteran, who was dismissed from the Veterans Administration because of his membership in the Socialist Workers' Party was the other speaker...
Since all parties are condemned to being permanent minorities, they dare not alienate the special groups on which they chiefly depend. Socialists must always demand more favors for civil servants, and Independents always refuse any reform of the farm support system. The M.R.P...
...upset, always a strong possibility in this annual tilt, will depend mainly on the Eli's ability to repeat its early season performance when it defeated Boston College and Brown...
Neither Langer nor Wahl were willing to predict how long the new government would survive. They felt that the life of the cabinet will depend on a number of as yet undetermined factors. In 1952 Faure managed to hold a government together for only six weeks...
...Charles Turck of St. Paul's Macalester College feels that the private institution might well plan to grow indefinitely-even if it must rely on Government grants as do the British universities. "Does anyone believe," he asks, "that the public institution men who know that their tax appropriations depend on their numbers are going voluntarily to limit their numbers? Of course not. And if they don't, why should we?" On the the other hand. President Gilbert White of Haverford College has come to the conclusion that "we may be of greatest service in the long...