Word: doled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poison & Dog Food. Officials had expected to dole the food out slowly over a two-week period. But on the first day, nearly 100,000 East Germans swamped the eight distribution points, lining up in queues 15 and 20 wide, stretching for blocks. The West Germans hurriedly set up another 18 stations, increased the staff from 500 to 3,400, and summoned more food from big West Berlin stockpiles which had been built up against another Red blockade of Berlin. As fast as these supplies were drained, ships and planes brought in new food from...
...public is conditioned to read into this situation the old conflict of patronage-hungry politicians against the merit system. That conflict does exist, and the Administration would have an easier time with Congress if it had some more jobs to dole...
...third boat, Cary Heminger strokes, Andy Krumbhaar is at seven, Paul Canney, six, Abba Kastin, five, and Bill Rowe at four. Bob Dole rows three oar, while the bow pair of Steven Hopkins and Dave Knutson end the shell. Both E. Pitts and Charlie Ball alternate...
...because none of the old hands was willing to shoulder the responsibility last February, when the Treasury was empty and the budget unsolved. France, where Crisis is a word rarely out of the headlines, was drifting into the Worst one yet. The country might collapse completely without a U.S. dole. The Indo-China war was going from bad to worse. In the precious North African colonies, the corks were beginning to blow. Finances were in a nightmare tangle...
...Dole Gilmore, President of the Class of '53, and Janet Titus, President of the Class of '55, had worked on the new oating plan for almost a year...