Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Highlands. That evening the President left Bonn, sent a farewell message over his jet's radio to Konrad Adenauer: DEAR FRIEND-I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW GRATEFUL I AM. An hour and a half later, he was at London Airport, shaking hands with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In an off-the-cuff arrival speech that brought murmurs of appreciation from the crowd, the President said: "I must say my deepest reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which...
...committee proposal to boost the federal gasoline tax by 1? a gallon to get the nearly stalled federal-state highway program fueled up again was a "step in the right direction," said Ike (he had urged a 1½ increase), but he objected to the proposal to channel about half the revenue from federal taxes on automobiles and parts into the highway trust fund. Transferring that revenue, argued Ike. ''would only shift the fiscal problem from the highway fund to the general fund, which is already in precarious balance...
Determined to break the log jam, Attorney General William P. Rogers told reporters at the American Bar Association convention in Miami last week that President Eisenhower has approved a bargaining proposal. If, said Rogers, the Congress would approve the judicial-expansion bill, then the Administration would promise to fill half the posts with Democrats, the other half with Republicans. But Rogers' fifty-fifty idea fell with a soft plop in the Senate, where Republicans are unwilling to strike such a patronage-defeating bargain-and where Democrats seem more than willing to wait a year or so, when they hope...
...children did the rest. Daughter René, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie wet his diapers, and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair...
Plumbers & Barns. Of Arnhem's 10,000 men, only 2,163 broke out. leaving 6,000 prisoners, half of them wounded. But the paratroopers' spirit was so strong that hundreds of men escaped from P.W. compounds after the battle. Among them was Surgeon Paul, who took through the barbed wire with him "the specimen of a traumatic aneurysm which I'd removed in [Arnhem] and . . . had a whim to present to ... the Royal College of Surgeons...