Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bang-up job - though it would have to do a still better one. To meet the increasing demands for power, he said, the industry should spend $1 billion a year on expansion. He warned that power-men should not be lulled into thinking that long-term demands would lessen just because business had started to slip off. Said he: The current slide in business might last until the second quarter of next year. By the end of 1951, there should be an upturn that may bring production right back up to where...
...wish to lessen the present tension," Mindszenty had written. "I voluntarily admit that, in principle, I committed the acts in the indictment . . . After 35 days of constant meditation ... I consider that an agreement between church and state is necessary ... I hereby willingly declare-free from pressure, of course-that I am willing to withdraw from the exercise of my duties for a time...
...inches, has been handy in the bucket on offense, and equally useful in grabbing rebounds off the board. He probably played his best game when the freshmen beat Trinity 43-37 on December 16. Just before exam period Harper began using Al Switzer at center with considerable success to lessen the load on Stevenson...
...General Fu Tso-yi continued to play a strange sort of game with the Reds. A Communist broadcast had condemned Fu (along with Chiang Kaishek, Sun Fo, most of the new cabinet and others) as a war criminal, deserving a "just penalty." The broadcast added, however, that Fu "could lessen his fate somewhat" if he would immediately surrender Peiping and Tientsin...
...Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called for too much centralization and too much interference with doctors by laymen...