Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the 1,128-page record of the hearings, Democrats extracted the main ammunition for attacking Strauss on the Senate floor. Gist of the Democratic charge: Strauss's testimony is sprinkled with half truths and even lies. But the ammunition is small-bore stuff, proving only that under rough and hostile questioning, Strauss can be evasive, quibblesome and not above beclouding a point with big handfuls of debater's dust. Example, one that Gale McGee considers especially damaging to Strauss...
Wisely spent, the $2 billion pumped into Spain during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree, some of whose principal results are a steel mill whose products cost half again as much as German imports, an auto plant in Barcelona that builds ersatz Fiats for more than twice the cost of the real thing, thousands of luxury apartments still unrented, a $300 million annual trade deficit, an inflation that nearly doubled the amount of currency in circulation in five years (from 37 billion...
...vivacious at 60, Dr. Jessie Marmorston reported last week on 174 women (many over 70) who had had one or more heart attacks-in nearly every case a coronary occlusion. She divided them into two equal groups, matched as precisely as possible for age and severity of symptoms. One-half got a small daily dose (ten-millionths of a gram) of estrogen, the rest got none. After three years, more than twice as many in the nonestrogen group had died-virtually all from fresh heart attacks or general worsening of the disease...
...book has 96 pages and 47 chapters, but more than half the space is blank. Chapter 47 is titled "Lord Chesterfield's Last Letter to His Son," and consists entirely of this message: "Dear Junior-Get lost-Dad." But as book stores closed last week, 42,500 copies had been sold, and Jack Douglas' My Brother Was an Only Child (Dutton; $2.50) made the bestseller lists for the ninth straight week...
...least a half-dozen Radcliffe girls penned in reasons for objecting to mixed marriage on the more personal grounds of wanting to feel a "oneness" with their partners on this fundamental matter of religion: "Feel I must agree with mate on religion to be happy." "There are certain parts of Jewish life I want to have in my home--I think I'd enjoy life with a person who could share these moments and activities with me." "Sharing religion is basic to a marriage, I think...