Word: extras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the year's whopper: the $39,594,339,000 Defense Department appropriation-$346,139,000 more than the White House had asked, with the Army getting the biggest bonus. Included in the bill were an extra $380 million nuclear carrier for the Navy, $85 million more for the Air Force's Atlas missile, and $309 million for the Army's Nike-Hercules and for Army equipment modernization. The Defense Department was directed to keep the Marine Corps at 200,000 men instead of the budgeted 175,000, keep the National Guard...
...books as having only 999 sq. mi. After World War II, Bech saw his chance. When the Inter-Allied Commission on Frontier Correction asked Luxembourg what it wanted in reparations, Bech promptly replied: one square mile of the German forest area called Kammerwald. The Allies threw in an extra square mile for good measure...
...many foreign prelates, diplomats and newsmen, who have long protested that it is almost impossible to get the ponderous, antique machinery of the Vatican to grind after lunch. Together, the wage boost and hour stretchout will probably cut down on the Vatican tradition of "moonlighting," i.e., taking on extra spare-time jobs...
...Naturally, all this extra singing and dancing will take up a lot of time. And I do want the show to be entertaining above all, so I'd better play up the farcical opportunities and invent a lot of by-play. Still, I only have two hours and a half. Well, I'll do a little pruning here and there in the text; and I guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare...
...American League race, and to Owner Tom Yawkey the next move was obvious. Out went Manager Mike ("Pinky") Higgins, 50. In came Billy Jurges, 51, the old National League shortstop (Chicago, New York), who declared an equally obvious formula for pulling up his Sox: "Ted Williams and a little extra hustle...