Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose that, hereafter, the Council's expenses be paid by its members. This solution would have several good results. It would give a more solid base to the Council's aloofness. It would limit candidates to the right sort of people. It would eliminate radicals such as those who ran on an Abolition ticket last year. Perhaps the most beneficial result of my solution is that it would restrict the number of those unwanted, unappreciated--but worthy--projects that the Council undertakes for the edification and improvement of its constituents. Charles Hosmer...
BLOODY BABS, THE TIGER WOMAN, scream the tabloids, and the jury gives her the limit. But Convict Graham protests her innocence, and her protest is supported by a well-known psychiatrist. Says he: "She is totally immoral, [but] her crimes are the crimes of those for whom physical violence is impossible." The defense appeals. The court upholds the death verdict. The date of execution is fixed...
...afternoon was discouragingly sunny and windy. "Too bright," said Humphrey. "On days like this the ducks fly high. A cloudy, gloomy day would be better." But Ike, hunting from an aluminum punt with Club Manager Cornelius Mominee as his guide and duck caller, quickly bagged his legal daily limit of four birds, all mallards. His shotgun: a short-barreled, 20-gauge Winchester...
...mention certain other prospects for a new Congress that might think it had to live up to its liberal billing: automatic death for any natural gas bill, possible reduction of the Texas-cherished 27½% depletion allowance on oil income, an end to conservative and Southern hopes to limit the Supreme Court's powers...
...which once had five, now has only two. Africa, The Philippines and Mexico would each like a cardinal. So complex and widespread have the church's affairs become that many Vatican officials feel that the Pope should expand the college beyond the present limit of 70 (the Pope can raise the limit to any figure he sees fit). Whether he chooses to fill up the college in one or two big consistories, or does it piecemeal in a series of small ones, Vaticaners feel that the new Pope, a clean-desk administration man without the procrastinating tendencies...