Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of this decision, the first of its kind by an appellate court, was to transfer to the U. S. the burden of proving, not that home-made wine contains more than .5% alcohol but that it contains enough alcohol to make a person drunk and hence is outside the "non-intoxicating" clause of the Volstead Act and therefore illegal...
...ultimately presented the Latins' written offer gave Great Britain an increase of $6,500,000, annually in her share of what the creditor powers receive in reparations. Surprisingly enough the major part of this concession was made not by France but by Italy, a fact the more notable because the Italian chief delegate, Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi, has not had a free hand, but has been forced to keep in hourly telegraphic touch with Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, no softie...
They were urged to endorse it sight-unseen as "a duty of unconditional loyalty to the State." As if this were not enough to stagger politicians and jolt the Peace of Europe, the article concluded gloatingly that while Italy has a standing military force of only 329,000 men "the new Military Power in Central Europe musters total military effectives...
...join Budennevskaya Kon-armia (Budenny's Horsemen). Only last year, when the Soviet Congress was discussing a project for electrification of certain provincial cities, Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses for the Army!" On the Chino-Russian front last week Commander Budenny had "enough" horses and cavalrymen ? 30,000 according to one despatch...
...doctor clamped his forceps to the gash, left the silver handles hanging. The victor's second caught a smear of blood on a calling card. Doctors and judges agreed the wound was serious enough to end the fight. With the doctor, the vanquished youth moved away, holding up the forceps to keep their weight from his gashed cheek...