Word: extended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimous consent to limit debate. The filibustering bloc warned him that they would not stand for a knife at their throats, and Knowland backed down. An amendment to kill all domestic portions of the bill was beaten. Then an amendment to modify the patent features of the bill and extend the licensing period on atomic inventions from five to ten years was passed...
...Senate Finance Committee voted to extend social-security benefits to clergymen on a voluntary basis. They would have two years in which to elect coverage. The committee voted against coverage for professional groups such as doctors and lawyers but considered the clergy a special "hardship" case...
...there, too, went Jacobo Arbenz-after first forcing the Government Development Bank to extend a second mortgage on his cotton farm for $200,000 payable to his wife. He is also accused of having taken funds from the Treasury. Other government fat cats, who had done their looting earlier, were in the Salvadoran embassy; their six 1954 Cadillacs crowded the ambassadorial courtyard...
...terribly demanding life, you know. You go insane trying to reach perfection." From Schoenberg ("an extremely articulate, extraordinarily precise man") Kirchner had learned that "any great teacher tries to teach you the why of things-not just chords, but 'why' chords. He teaches you how to extend music in time.'' Later, Kirchner studied with Ernest Bloch, learning from the noted composer "to respect the use, the real function, of materials." His next teacher was Roger Sessions, with whom Kirchner worked in 1942 and again after the war. Sessions, Kirchner believes, is America's greatest composer...
...making security grounds the sole reason for dismissal. But fourteen of the institutions, Mostly state universities, still refused to agree to the contracts, fearing government encroachment on academic freedom. The American Civil Liberties Union registered a particulary strong protest against the government's action, expressing concern "lost government control extend so far as to impose strict conformity on our national life...