Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once Stung. Only once during the week did Candidate Nixon get into the give and take of partisan politics. Then, stung by Democratic Presidential Candidate Stuart Symington's criticism of Administration missile and space policies, Nixon replied: "While he was Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There...
...cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share for the recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock-walled "casino" are carefully regulated...
...prewar identification with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement. Although he remains the No. 2 man in the party, Butler may well be too old for the job the next time the Tories come to choose a new Prime Minister, and there is considerable question whether Macmillan will give him the job he wants now: Foreign Secretary...
...Bond stood with his foot poised against the outboard escape door, which would open when pressure inside and out was equalized. After 25 seconds, he felt it give, and yelled: "On the bottom!" Tuckfield closed the air inlet. They were now up to their necks in water, and breathing air at a pressure of about ten atmospheres, 134 p.s.i. above normal. Instead of being searing hot, as they had feared, it proved comfortably warming. But there was no time to enjoy it. Not a second could be lost, or they would begin to suffer nitrogen poisoning-Jacques Yves Cousteau...
...summer session, running from mid-July to early September will be voluntary, as will the winter session. During one of the two half-terms, the student is required to do field work. The college will give courses, often doing experimental work in the brief term. This winter, for example, there will be one course given: "The Breakdown of the Nineteenth Century World View...