Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SAVILLE GARNER High Commissioner for the United Kingdom Ottawa...
...ended fiscal 1959 and the skimpy $100 million surplus estimated in the fiscal-1960 budget. As Administration economists and budgetmakers see it, spending in fiscal 1961 will creep up to about $80 billion from the current year's $77.5 billion, but the soaring economy may produce revenues as high as $86 billion. If so, President Eisenhower, when he unveils his new budget in January of election year 1960, will be able to point to a hefty surplus to use for denting the national debt or nicking taxes, or both...
...veto rattled Democrats in both halls of Congress. Senate Leader Johnson attacked "vetoes and vetoes and vetoes," chided Ike for requiring Congress to pass his proposals "without crossing a 't' or dotting an 'i.' " But the odds were high that Eisenhower, riding the tide of thrift, would eventually get what Johnson knew the White House wanted: a housing law that renews the nearly exhausted FHA mortgage-insurance authority, extends home-improvement and military-housing loan insurance programs and costs about the $1.6 billion the President asked in the first place...
...Monty's Double (at the Exeter). A witty script in which Clifton James, playing three roles, re-enacts the true and magnificent hoax that the British played on the German high command in World...
...think of this line of reasoning, it must be admitted that Berghof has succeeded in doing almost everything he set out to do. His production makes use of the fine two-story basic stage that Robert O'Hearn designed for the Cambridge Drama Festival's shows in Sanders Theatre. High up, Lester Polakov (whose costumes add much to the general lightness and brightness) has affixed a number of white, stylized orange-tree tops. And by having spikes driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where Malvolio discovers...