Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...registered Democrat, may I say that the more I find out about Jack Kennedy the better I like Dick Nixon...
...none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination" rather than "poorly founded exaltation." Along with other NATO leaders who sat around the table, Secretary General Spaak could find little resemblance between what went on in the conference room and what was shouted in the headlines of dispute and disintegration that had rattled out of the press rooms. Said Spaak: "The double character of the alliance-defensive military effort, aggressive diplomatic effort-was clearly underlined. There is now an Atlantic...
...increased municipal services and capital improvements when more and more of the people who work in the city-and demand the improvements-live in and spend their dollars in the suburbs. Early in his term Big Nick set up committees to study Denver's needs and to find ways and means of raising the money for an improvement program. The mayor's own suggestion: a city income tax. To the folks in metropolitan Denver, who already pluck the petals off their salaries for federal and state income taxes and state and city sales taxes, this seemed...
...students in Paris, about 39,000 either find rooms at the university or live at home. But the rest must find squalid attic rooms, often without running water and usually with an exorbitant rent of as much as $80 a month. "Many students," says Secretary Jacques Bertherat of the students' federation, "are forced to do their reading and writing in cafés and bistros, which at least provide some warmth during the winter months...
...Another college found in June that it needed 100 more freshmen, and the admissions officer was told to find them. What could a poor admissions officer do to fill those places at such a time...