Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years from Selective Service (and two years in the Ready Reserve). In addition, the Army reduced the Ready Reserve time to encourage more teen-age enlistments. At present, the Ready Reserve obligations for men 17-18 1/2 is three years, and for men 18 1/2-26, five-and-a-half. Pay is now $78 a month while on active duty...
...cigar-munching teetotaler, was left fatherless at 13, shined shoes, ran errands, earned his way through night law school, was elected to the House in 1928. He is a hard-knuckled politician from one of the hardest knuckled of all political schools: Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District. More than half Irish, the Twelfth takes in ten dingy, crowded...
Sukarno's new plan aims at reforming the parliament before the next election. Of parliament's 300 members, half will be selected from "functional" groups (trade unions, business organizations, women's clubs, the armed forces), the other half nominated as prospective members of parliament by political parties. The functional list will then be screened by a government coordinating agency and passed on to Sukarno himself, who has the authority to arrange the order in which candidates will appear on the ballot...
Voters will cast two ballots, one for political parties (not individual candidates), the other for functional groups. In actual practice, Sukarno will have the authority to hand-pick half the members of parliament. The chief losers under the new system will be the Moslem Masjumi Party, many of whose leaders backed the "rebellion of the colonels" that still flickers in the outer islands, and the Communists. For the Reds the new Konsepsi is also a bitter blow, since under the old system they had been confident of winning the next elections and coming to power legally. But Red Boss...
Neighbors peered into the street through half-closed shutters, but the police quickly warned: "Shut those windows or we will shoot." A young doctor ignored the order and tried to administer first aid to a man felled by a police truncheon. A cop shot him through the chest...