Word: finales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beating the Backlog. In last week's report, the final one to be made by the group, the Draper Committee's deepest worry was that the U.S. might be fooled into thinking that Congress had not cut dangerously into foreign-aid programs. Overall spending figures, the committee explained, are deceptive. During the Korean war, the U.S. built up an $8.5 billion backlog of military-aid appropriations. But since 1954 the U.S. has been delivering about $2.5 billion worth of arms to its allies-while congressional appropriations averaged only $1.5 billion a year'. The difference has been made...
...bargain harder, the Administration could build up public pressure for a quick peace without breaking his promise not to interfere directly. To offend nobody, Mitchell called in both combatants beforehand, showed what he intended to release, made some minor changes suggested by each. Neither side quibbled with the final report, but neither was moved. Said Mitchell: "Management and labor already know these facts...
...dream? Apparently it was no dream. When Sitwell sees a kitten, the animal will have nothing to do with him, it arches its back and its tail goes up straight, for "I have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their god is in themselves and not in a high place in the sky . . . We, and all creatures, are left to fend for ourselves." To the reader of the slightest religious instinct, Author Sitwell's long and learned journey is about...
...bogged-down army. They saw "an almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne, or, as Paul says, "all that was left...
...With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team was dropping the final game of its 18-game losing streak. In other years, Griffith Stadium would go for months without such a crowd...