Word: dom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against him, shrewdly concluded that he had better change his party's ways before the 1961 presidential elections. "Nothing less than a total war against corruption will satisfy our people,'' announced the new Garcia-and fired four of his Cabinet ministers. Then he summoned Economist Dominador (Dom) Ay-tona, 42, a onetime schoolmaster who had graduated summa cum laude from Manila University and served as Magsaysay's budget commissioner. "What do you think about graft and corruption?" he asked. When Aytona bluntly replied that reform was necessary, Garcia named him Secretary of Finance, in charge...
...Ward1; $5). Manichaeans are every where, says Lynch, particularly in the arts. His case against them: instead of looking directly upward for insight into the in finite, the true way up is the way down -into the finite facts of life. The literary imagination, striving to ascend to free dom, must descend into things, and the model for it is Christ, who "moved down into all the realities of man to get to his Father...
...father of two young sons and a 15-year-old daughter, Koch bitterly viewed his dismissal as a breach of academic free dom. "I am a biologist," said he, "and I think I know something about sex. More enlightenment about sex and morals would lead to healthier lives for our citizens. This is the most puritan country in the Western world...
...18th century French motif by Paris Designer Jacques Frank. It cost something over $250,000 to entertain the 1,270 guests who ate up, among other things, 5,000 finger sandwiches, 2,160 scrambled eggs, 100 Ibs. of corned beef hash, drank 480 bottles of Cuvée Dom Perignon (1949) and 720 bottles of hard liquor, and danced through the night to Meyer Davis' society orchestra, flown in from New York. By Detroit standards, Charlotte Ford's coming-out party was a dazzling spectacle; by any other standards, it was as Hearst Society Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker cooed...