Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fencing team rallied from losses in its last two starts to gain its third victory of the season, with an exciting 14-13 triumph over City Collage of New York at the I.A.B. Saturday...
...samurai (Noel Willman) and his wife (Claire Bloom) through a bamboo glade, decoyed the husband with promises of buried loot, trussed him up, and raped his wife before his eyes. The samurai is later found dead. According to the bandit, the wife baited him into killing her husband to gain her. The wife swears she killed him to spare him dishonor. Through a medium, the dead samurai claims that he heartbrokenly committed suicide. All three versions are exposed as self-interested lies when the eyewitnessing woodcutter gives a "true" account...
With so much political pressure and savvy behind it, major housing legislation at this session is assured. What both Houses seem likely to settle for in the end is a bill in which the Administration will gain some minor points, give ground on others to proponents of more extensive subsidies. Already dead, apparently, is the President's idea of lifting all ceilings on FHA mortgage insurance, the backbone of the private-enterprise housing program. Instead, Congress is moving in the direction of handing out $5 billion of mortgage insuring authority for the rest of this fiscal year, $5 billion...
...undefeated freshman team journeys to Exeter today in an attempt to gain its fifth straight...
...EXPORTS will rise from last year's estimated $16.2 billion to more than $17 billion, while imports will go from $12.9 billion to $13.8 billion in 1959, predicts National Foreign Trade Council. One big reason for export gain: convertibility of Europe's currencies...