Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yoshida's conservative, pro-American Liberal Party won 199 of the 466 seats in the Lower Chamber of the Diet. Yoshida did not get an absolute majority, because the rebels, led by Ichiro Hatoyama, campaigned on a splinter ticket. But cigar-chewing Shigeru Yoshida won enough seats to earn his fifth crack at the premiership...
...House, press parties, guest appearances, etc. Soon he was back at NBC's Manhattan studios, mugging for the cameras, playing with toys (including a game of Russian roulette with an empty pistol), and sometimes merely looking like a weary-eyed, simple simian. He need do no more to earn his $250 a week, but Garroway has bigger plans afoot. "As soon as he can take direction properly," says Dave, "we plan to have J. Fred carry copy to the news desk...
...translation from the French by Irving Yoskowitz and John Bowman is in good style (in spite of an occasional clash like "yearn to earn"). These gentlemen are also chiefly responsible for the attractive staging and fast pace of the production. The emphasis is on slapstick comedy and this generally succeeds in keeping the ridiculous script from falling flat. The orchestra under Edward Troupin is excellent; this is one of the few student productions that I have ever heard where the orchestra did not overbalance the vocalists...
...million. France is in direr straits and $625 million in debt to EPU; there is strong talk of a new devaluation of the franc. Rome and Paris had both threatened to tighten import regulations to get themselves out of their jam. By making it easier for them to earn sterling, Butler may induce them to change their minds...
Having passed the eleventh birthday of ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins' famed theory that a student should be allowed to earn a bachelor's degree as quickly as he is able, the University of Chicago announced that it was setting up some pretty old-fashioned requirements for its new B.S.: four whole years, "as in other colleges.'' Did this mean that Chicago would backtrack on Hutchins completely? Hinted Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton: "We've tried our innovation for eleven years, hoping that many other colleges and universities would join us. They haven't. There comes...