Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconcile the House's version of the bill with the Senate's. The committee finally voted it out. Embracing most of the funds (with the exception of fixed charges) which Congressmen had originally thought the Government would need next year, the bill ran to 500 pages, defied exact analysis even by experts. They guessed it amounted to "about $34 billion...
...Musical Convent." A onetime Max Reinhardt student, German-born, 63-year-old Carl Ebert is one operatic director who insists that his "singing actors" know "the exact meaning of what they are singing and . . . strive to make it sound believable by their actions and expressions...
...Yalta in 1945, after Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed on San Francisco and April for the opening U.N. conference, there still remained an argument over the exact day. From the back of the room, Sir Gladwyn called: "Why not start April 25-that's my birthday." Amid laughter, the 25th...
Last week management got a long-awaited break. The representatives of seven major dailies and of Japan's radio network were summoned by occupation authorities and given "strong recommendations on the duty of democratic newspapers." Within the next few days the exact nature of the "recommendations" became clear: 476 newsmen were fired on the charge that they were either active Communists or fellow travelers and "advocates of violence and subversion." Since the papers announced that the action "supersedes all domestic laws and labor agreements," there was no doubt that the ousters had been authorized by occupation officials...
...exact answer could be given. Since Russia held the initiative, it depended on what Russia would do next. The argument was being made that Korea might actually be the beginning of Russia's all-out assault on the Western democracies and that nothing less than total U.S. mobilization was adequate to the crisis...