Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, offers generous bonuses for overtime, shares of the profits, liberal family allowances, special housing and schools and long paid vacations. Only about 40 of the 200-odd pilots now on the Suez roll are native Egyptians, and these were laid on only because Nasser refused to grant visas to any more foreign pilots unless some of his own countrymen were put on the roster...
...hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander of the vigilantes, a lawyer and paratroop veteran of Korea's Heartbreak Ridge named Leo W. Grant Jr. Said one of Grant's citizens: "Hell, it ain't a matter of wanting or not wanting niggers in the school, it's a matter of who's going to run the town, the Government or that mob out there. It's not easy...
...Indian rupees. Further, the U.S. agreed to spend all of the rupees it will receive in ways calculated to benefit the Indian economy. The breakdown: 65% to go to India as a new U.S. loan, the details of which are still under negotiation; 15% to be a direct U.S. grant to help India's economic development; 20% to go toward U.S. Government costs in India, e.g., the construction of a handsome new U.S. embassy in New Delhi (see ART). The U.S. attached an enlightened self-interest condition to the deal...
...universities to find out how they ranked American Presidents, emerged with results virtually identical to those of LIFE'S 1948 poll conducted by Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Sr. The top four: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson. The bottom two: Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding...
When Chaucer's young knight acts on this conviction and, in effect, gives her freedom to the old hag he has been trapped into marrying, she is promptly transformed into a beautiful and faithful young woman. The analyst, says Dr. Stein, must symbolically grant "sovereignty" to his hag patients by freely accepting "the negative destructive aspect of [his patients'] feminine nature" and casting aside his own "inquisitorial attitude." This, the doctor adds, "is the key to the secret which the analyst must discover if he is to deal successfully with 'loathsome women.' " How well does...