Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman held the same belief, but had to back away when it became known that he also favored a twelve-year service limit in each chamber, and oldtimers in his party became enraged...
...China, he came within 13 votes of being chosen Premier (TIME, June 15, 1953)-"To govern is to choose," says Mendès-France. He has argued in speech after speech in the Assembly that only by abandoning some of its commitments can France overcome its immobilisme. "France must limit her objectives, but attain them; establish a policy which is perhaps less ambitious than some would desire, but hold to it. Our aim must not be to give the illusion of grandeur, but to remake a nation whose word will be heard and respected...
...Coldstream Guards, she watched the Trooping the Color ceremony on London's Horse Guards parade ground. Later, the Queen proclaimed the fifth honors list of her reign. Among the 2,500 British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham, who joined the exclusive ranks (limit: 50 members) of the Companions of Honor; sharp-tongued Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, 66, now a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire; solid Sir Gladwyn Jebb, 54, now Britain's Ambassador to France after four years as Britain's chief delegate...
Revolution. Publishers rightly feel that because of competition, increases in advertising rates and the sales price of their papers are fast approaching the limit, that the only recourse is to cut costs more. In the last two years hundreds of dailies have trimmed the size of their pages by an inch or more. By doing so, the New York Herald Tribune has made an estimated saving of more than $400,000 a year in newsprint...
...Markham this spring completed her 11th year as an assistant professor at the Medical School. This is the limit at this rank and she was not in line for promotion. Fine's was a one-year appointment and he was not seeking re-employment...