Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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You forget about Ike's million Americans who are ready, willing and able to be the closest of friends. I'd walk-and have-three miles to have him wave at me from a car. I don't have a friend in the world I'd...
Inflation & Taxes. "I have always urged that wage increases should be measured by increase of productivity, and I think that there would be no inflationary effect [i.e., price increases] if they were measured by that criterion. We shouldn't be so prone to ... decry profits in our economy. We...
Would Dr. Erhard, asked Adenauer, accept the decision of 19 Christian Democrat leaders assembled at that moment in his office, and become their candidate for President of the republic? Replied Erhard: "I just had a beating in the sauna, and I don't want to get another in the...
Chief Obodo's dominion in the district of Abakaliki was as near to absolute as that of a padrone in a Sicilian village. The distant government in the capital city of Lagos hardly interfered. Chief Obodo had his own courts, collected goats and cows from the villagers for tribute...
"We don't want palm-tree justice," says one of Ayub's ministers, and a Western diplomat calls the new regime "a relaxed dictatorship." The velvet glove has been more apparent than the iron fist, and as a result some of the old black-marketing, corrupt ways were...