Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he even prints his own money. When Huston imports a Washington society matron (Judith Anderson) whom he plans to marry, Barbara works herself up to hurling a pair of scissors at the intruder's face. Banished for her impulsiveness, Barbara plots to wreck Huston and seize his domain. She recruits help from another man she hates (because he once scorned her love): a gambler (Wendell Corey) who hates her father...
...TIME'S story gave me the answers in layman's language to the things I was confused about. Also, because TIME is read all over the world, it moved the subject from the technical into the public domain. The story had all the elements I needed: It was true; it was new and important and potentially powerful to an enemy. My job was to keep the suspense and stick to the facts...
North & South Ag. The domain that plain Charles Brannan presides over is one of the largest duchies in the peacetime federal bureaucracy. With 72,000 employees sprinkled across the nation, Agriculture eats through a $734 million budget for operations alone-a long jump from the days when Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin sent home seeds and plant cuttings from abroad and George Washington vainly urged Congress to spend money to promote agriculture...
Bonds in Sewers. Today the corporation's domain includes 165 buildings, 11,000 students, 5,000,000 books, an endowment of $177 million. It owns bonds in the sewers of Baton Rouge, La. and in the Province of Alberta. It has stock in every sort of industry from Jacob Ruppert (brewers) to the A. & P., and real-estate from the Kentucky coal fields to some island parcels off the coast of Maine...
...recognition of Israel. And they strongly suspected the U.S. of winking at British maneuvers in the Middle East. Outraged as most Arab League nations were, however, there was little they could do but bark indignantly in the direction of Abdullah. With British backing, Jordan seemed secure in its new domain...