Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any joe to assure the survival and success of liberty...
Sense of Whimsy. Hardship never crushed Reder's sense of whimsy. His people may be half bird; he invents preposterous musical instruments, designs costumes and headdresses that are pure fancy. His ideas come from almost anywhere-from the Old Testament, from Rabelais, from the memory of a statue of Napoleon (see color) or of a dwarf back in Czernowitz with a large head. "All I know is that when the time comes, the idea is there. It comes from my stomach, from my blood. And I never ask my blood...
Before he could sign up with St. Louis, Jones had to get special permission from Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, because he had not completed-or even started-high school. Classified as a "hardship case" (he was helping to support his parents and eight brothers and sisters), Jones gave his bonus to his family and headed for the Cardinals' spring training camp at Homestead. Fla.. where he worked out under the watchful eye of a farm system manager, Al Unser. "He would run until he got tired." says Unser. "and then he'd quit. We finally talked...
...Hardship Case. "Unfortunately," says Du Pont President Crawford Greenewalt, "the burden of the Supreme Court decision falls not on Du Pont as a manufacturing entity but on the stockholder." If Du Pont sold its G.M. stock on the market over the next decade, the sales would almost double recent New York Stock Exchange volume in G.M. stock every business day for the whole ten years, and would depress both Du Pont and G.M. stock prices. Alternatively, Du Pont could distribute its G.M. stock to Du Pont stockholders in place of or in addition to regular cash dividends-at a ratio...
...stock to our stockholders rather than selling it ourselves." If Du Pont can persuade one of the four majority judges on the Supreme Court to agree to a rehearing, it may also ask for a longer period of divestiture-perhaps 20 years-to make the task "less of a hardship...