Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each party's Deputies weigh the exact amount of support they can afford to give a government to acquire credit and avoid blame with their followings, whether to keep it in by abstention, to vote for it without joining it, to join it but criticize it, or to join on condition that the party gets a choice ministry...
...paid tribute to the Roman Catholic Church as "one of the major bulwarks against Communism and totalitarian ideas." In Ottawa the Rev. Dr. John A. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary and of the World Presbyterian Alliance, contradicted the Vice President. "I am compelled sorrowfully to say that the exact opposite is true," he told delegates to the North American Area Council of the Alliance. "Two decades ago the Roman Catholic Church made concordats with the totalitarian rulers of Italy and Germany . . . Today the Roman Catholic Church has a concordat with . . . Francisco Franco, the totalitarian ruler of Spain . . . Those Latin...
Weed or Wayward Man. Williams has included the major common variants used in different Latin American countries, often had to trace English and Spanish words back to their Latin origins to make sure they are exact equivalents. Instead of translating hierba merely as grass, he lists dozens of botanical variations as well as a few related colloquialisms. Mala hierba can mean weed or it can mean a wayward young man. Hierba amargosa means ragweed, hierba amarilla means an oxeye daisy, and so on down to hierba velluda meaning bulbous buttercup...
...point of announcing that it would defend Quemoy and Matsu, but at the last moment Dwight Eisenhower, to soothe British fears, vetoed it. He thought U.S. intentions were already clear enough "to make certain that no conflict occurs through mistaken calculations on the other side . . . We have been as exact as it seems possible...
...defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, even at the cost of war with Communist China, he revived a Constitutional problem virtually as old as the nation, the issue of war-making power. Ever since the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, political theorists and politicians alike have attempted to determine the exact legal processes necessary to bring the United States into a state of war with a foreign power. On the theoretical level, the question is as unresolved as ever. But the President's recent decision represents the latest answer on the level of political action...