Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give the U.S. the power of action, the President proposed a tremendous increase in the authority of the Secretary of Defense. Bypassing the Army, Navy and Air Force Secretaries, the Defense Secretary would command the armed services directly through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though emphatically subordinate to the civilian Defense Secretary and the civilian President, the Joint Chiefs would have the kind of direct operational control over the fighting forces that they have in wartime, would, in effect, outrank the cadres of civilian service secretaries and assistant secretaries who have laid a heavy bureaucratic hand on peacetime operations...
...people against tax cuts? Lu-bell's subjects gave three principal reasons: i) the individual family's slice would be too thin to make much difference; 2) tax cuts would be of no direct help to the unemployed; and 3) "the country needs the money." An Iowa milkman, a Georgia welder, a Texas printer, a California autoworker and a New Jersey insurance salesman all used almost identical words: "It would help me personally, but how can the Government run without money? And what will we do about the Russians...
...those newfangled political parties with their talk of popular elections. They ousted two party presidents from the Lukiko, even had National Congress Party Chairman Joseph Kiwanuka tossed into jail on the charge that he was plotting to assassinate the King. Last month the Lukiko rejected a plan to hold direct elections for Buganda's five delegates to the British-sponsored Legislative Council of Uganda, followed up with a resolution withdrawing official recognition from all political parties...
...lenders to sell more mortgages to the Government, thus unlocking up to $1 billion in fresh credit. In addition, the bill gives $550 million to Fannie Mae to buy mortgages on urban renewal projects, low-cost and military housing and homes for aged buyers, and authorizes $300 million for direct Veterans Administration housing loans...
...artists as much as its Greek equivalent-Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis. Like Author Fast's Moses, Author Feuchtwanger's book falls far short of the story's greatest possibilities, but it is told competently and plausibly in the simple, direct language of a veteran historical novelist (Jew Suss, Josephus). Both books reflect the intelligent spirit of the text that Author Feuchtwanger takes from Spinoza: "I have honestly endeavored not to laugh at the actions of men, nor to bemoan them, nor to abhor them, but to understand them...