Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assumed to want it. But his support could melt if, for instance, Estes Kefauver won a startling string of primaries as he did in 1952-or if Averell Harriman, who looks like a more serious contender now than he did six months ago, continues to gain...
This year, the Demo-Christians decided to beat the Communists at their own game. But though the Demo-Christians considered the expatriate vote in Italy, France and Belgium, their possible gain still looked too small to win, until Myriam Michelotti, daughter of the local pastry cook, had an idea: What about the San Marinese in America? Myriam, a fiery suffragette who believes that if women had the vote, the San Marino Reds would soon be out of office, flew to the U.S. and persuaded 127 San Marinese to come home to vote...
...often proclaimed that it wanted no territorial gain out of World War II. The big exception is Okinawa. According to an official U.S. Army handout, Okinawa-based bombers "have a far greater flexibility in choice of target areas than those based in either Japan or in the Philippines . . . They can reach all important target areas within an arc which includes all of Southeast Asia, the whole of China, the Lake Baikal industrial area, eastern Siberia, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula." In other words, Okinawa is the spearhead of U.S. retaliatory power in the Far East...
...always-to set up a universal Communist dictatorship run from Moscow. She thinks she can make better progress by concealing her bloodstained bludgeon under a pile of olive branches and trying the more subtle art of poison. By lulling the West she can revert to her early plot to gain control of the world by infiltration, through her fifth columns and similar subversive agents trained in Moscow...
...excise tax on luxury goods hurt sales and profits, which were as high as $3 a share in the '20s, dropped to 11? a share in 1952. However, sales are on the upgrade again and during 1955's first six months, Moore reported a 25% gain over the same period a year...