Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee had recommended a cut of $1 billion in the Truman program, but Committee Chairman Tom Connally promptly made it clear he would yield no further. "The way to get real economy is to defeat this bill entirely, give them nothing, vote for not one dime for the Mutual Security program," roared Texas Tom. "Then you can go home and stretch yourselves before your constituents and say, 'I saved $7 billion'-and let the world go to hell...
Several thousand volumes, ranging in price from a dime to little more than a dollar, will go on sale at 9 a.m. tomorrow on the ground floor of Widener Library...
Bruno Beiersdorf, 13, and his friend, Werner Breitschopp, were carefully reared schoolboys. "We are poor," said Bruno's mother, "but we've always tried to give our boy the best. Above all, we watch out that he doesn't read any Kriminalschmöker [dime detective novels...
...played by Georgia Burke)-to a tree house in a wood. It is not only a revolt against ugly materialism, but an escape from reality. The trio are joined in their tree by a judge; and the quartet sits about, lonely and lost, wishing and dreaming aloud. After some dime-novel hocus-pocus breaks in on their dream world, Dolly goes home to face reality, and her realistic sister Verena is humbled into seeking love...
...After four months of loafing around the campus Coke machines, a U.S. Secret Service agent pounced on three University of Wyoming students and hustled them off to jail. Their crime: shrinking pennies to dime-size in a one-minute bath of nitric acid. The law conceded that only about $20 worth of Cokes had been stolen in all, and that as many as 20 other students had done the same thing, but it still charged the three pranksters with mutilating U.S. currency. Bail was set at $1,000 apiece. Maximum penalty: a $2,000 fine and five years in jail...