Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment only to have Jenner berate him violently for supporting the Eisenhower program. "I've never taken so much abuse in my life," Capehart later confessed. "I'm afraid one of the 96 Senators is nuts." By that time Jenner was calling Capehart, who himself has Grade A credentials in the right-of-center division of the G.O.P., a "New Deal sonofabitch...
...instruments-clarinet and piano-and a real professional sheen on two others-drums and bones. At almost everything his timing and coordination were exceptional-though, curiously he could never learn to dance very well-and they showed to brilliant effect whenever he was on a stage. In the sixth grade he played Rip Van Winkle in the school play, and made a hit with all the mothers. He decided he might like to be an actor, if only fate would preserve him from the fertilizer business...
...driving sincerity of William Holden, his almost complete lack of pretentiousness, his energetic blend of talent and intelligence, his simple human decency to other people. One of his directors sums him up as "the typical American boy who wanted to become a slob, but couldn't make the grade...
With the nation scraping the bottom of its high-grade iron deposits and steel capacity due to rise 60% (to 216 million tons yearly) by 1980, the development of such low-grade ores as jasper and its cousin, taconite, has become one of the fastest-growing branches of the booming steel industry. Items...
This done, they must, in effect, make low grade housing illegal, by writing a housing code, with inspection and powers of enforcement...