Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman offered a bill to cut the Ten Commandments to eight it would pass. Last week the House slashed away at the Labor and Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill, and its mood had a scalpel's edge. In seven days of surgery on Labor and HEW, the Congressmen trimmed $69 million off the Appropriations Committee's $2.9 billion bill. Then, before the patient had regained consciousness, the surgeons stitched back nearly 80% of what they...
...vaccine. Last year the vaccine was first scarce, then adequate, then overabundant; at year's end it was backing up in producers' pipelines. By a drastic failure of coordination between industry and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the manufacturers cut back production just when HEW, backed by President Eisenhower and the A.M.A., launched a campaign for mass vaccinations...
...doses in the nation's pipelines (against 26 million on Jan. 1), Dr. Burney decided on a year-round drive to flatten the peaks in vaccination activity, permit even-schedule production. He was hopeful that the supply crisis might end by mid-April. In the light of HEW's past misjudgments, Massachusetts officials did not expect it to end before Labor...
Under this assault, British defiance soon began to crumble. In open General Assembly debate, Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd continued to hew to the established British line: Britain would withdraw her forces "as soon as the U.N. force is in a position to assume effectively the tasks assigned to it." Privately, however, Lloyd began explaining to his U.N. colleagues that Britain was in fact determined to get out of Egypt as soon as possible and that continuing U.N. pressure for "immediate" withdrawal would only serve to stir up British national pride to such an extent that the Eden government might...
...been having a hard time explaining how the Communists could oppose the war in Algeria and still support the Socialist government. They demanded a show of hands, even though such a demand is hard to square with the theory of Communist discipline. The party elders, however, felt bound to hew to the Kremlin's new doctrine of fraternizing with the Socialists, whether or not the comradeship is reciprocated...