Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole, this worked. From the first session of the 83rd, Ike got nearly everything he asked for. His greatest tactical victory was extension of the excess-profits tax, despite the opposition of Ways & Means Chairman Dan Reed. Ike's worst defeat was rejection of his eleventh-hour request for an increase in the U.S. debt limit. Significantly, the tactics of the debt-limit fight (see below) did not allow Ike to apply this one-by-one technique...
...years. Riegelman, a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, did not immediately accept the nomination, but he declared earlier, "There is nothing a New Yorker should not drop to serve in the city's highest office." Determinedly hopeful G.O.P. campaign leaders wondered whether he could drop his excess dignity on television...
...Armed with radioactive phosphorus supplied by the AEC, two top U.S. specialists flew to Yugoslavia to treat Cardinal Stepinac for polycythemia (an excess of red blood cells, sometimes called "reverse leukemia"): the University of California's Radiation Expert John H. Lawrence (TIME, April 7, 1952) and Chicago Surgeon John F. Ruzic...
Bravery & Bravado. Right from boyhood, Byron greedily determined to have an outward career as exciting as his inner life, and to get, if possible, the best of both worlds. A deformed foot and excess weight stood in his way, so at 19 he grimly started training. "I have lost 18 LB in my weight ... by violent exercise and Fasting ... I wear seven Waistcoats and a greatcoat, run, and play at cricket in this Dress, till quite exhausted by excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours...
...Senate passed and sent to the President (who promptly signed it) the Administration bill to extend the excess-profits tax for six months...