Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, Funnyman Eddie Cantor deserted live television for TV films.Cantor will make 39 TV films annually, as well as an equal number of recorded radio programs, for Ziv Television Programs, Inc. His return over the next seven years will be "in excess...
...Libya by former French prisoners of the Viet Minh, brainwashed by their Communist captors. The French also say that the Arab League, the Communists and the Neo-Destour are at work with the fellagha, though the independence-seeking Neo-Destour Party stoutly insists it disapproves of violence and excess...
...Boom? Meanwhile, the Stock Exchange has campaigned hard to sell common stocks just as the supply was being diminished by the influx of such buyers as pension funds and investment trusts, who take the stock off the market. The death of the excess-profits tax, easy money, and the prospect of continued fat dividends as well as lower taxes on them-have also made stocks look like better buys...
...that to "serve the mutual interests of trade and of the economies of the two countries," terms of the credit would be relaxed to permit Brazil to pay its debt over 7½ years. For his part, Souza Dantas said that half of Brazil's dollar earnings in excess of $1 billion (last year's total earnings: $765 million) would also be applied to reducing the debt...
...sixth New Theatre Workship production, In the Lion's Mouth by Erik Amfitheatrof, is full of sound and fury, signifying little that has not already been well explored. But it is, for all its excess philosophy, an exciting play. In fact, its main fault lies in the effort Mr. Amfitheatrof has made to achieve excitement. His characters indulge in a good deal too much swearing and beating upon one another--both gems of stock dramaturgy that are below the author's general high plane of plot construction...