Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most precarious balancing act since the original Great Wallendas retired from the high wire-President Eisenhower's 1960 budget-is still gamely keeping its balance. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans reported last week. Said normally solemn Accountant Stans, fighting hard to smother a grin: during the half-year since the President presented his budget to Congress, the economy's energetic climb has added $1.9 billion to the Administration's income estimate for fiscal 1960 (ending next June). But over the same span, the outgo estimate has also crept upward by $1.9 billion, reaching $78.9 billion. Biggest reason...
...five years of bloody rebellion against France, Algeria's rebels have pitted their ill-equipped guerrilla bands against an army of half a million men armed with everything from flamethrowers to jets. In compensation, the rebels have relied heavily and successfully on a moral weapon: the 20th century's prevailing anticolonialism. Last week, to their public confusion, the rebels found themselves for the first time at a moral disadvantage...
...center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout his party's offer of a nationwide pension plan that would enable all British workers to retire at 65 on half...
...constituencies. The Liberals slugged hardest at the Tories' Suez failure and at "police state" colonial methods in Kenya and Nyasaland; they were also the only party campaigning for British membership in the European Common Market. Grimond & Co. did not expect to add more than half a dozen parliamentary seats to their present six, could only hope to exert real influence over the next government if the Tories and the Socialists wound up in a near draw. The real question was whether what votes they got in the marginal constituencies would be "stolen" from Labor or the Tories. The pundits...
...engine began to cough and sputter. Losing altitude rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken Spitfire shot in, flaps down and wheels up, narrowly missed an oak tree, flattened on the grass and skidded 60 yards to a stop in the outfield...