Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last hot potato. During his visit, he met three times with South Korea's President Syngman Rhee (and publicly said that Rhee "shows every qualification of a great leader"). But on Ike's last crowded afternoon, Rhee's agents buzzed around headquarters insisting that Rhee would lose face if Ike did not pay a return call on the presidential mansion. The Secret Service was against going about in Seoul, but finally Ike gave in, and changed his schedule. Back in his rooms within an hour, he packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy, Van Fleet...
Last spring, President Conant commissioned Helfard and John M. Gaus Professor of Government, to study for possibility of moving Planning to Littauer in order save money. Both told Caraut the idea was poor, that planned would lose its great significance to study texture and be completely as allowed in the Public Administration progress. The6JOSEPH HUDNUT came to weak, relatively unknown Design School in 1933. The school's present prestige is largely due to his programs and the faculty he secured. Only during the past few years did the personal feud with Gropius assume such large proportions...
...medical experts are willing to believe that rockets can be built to navigate space, but they are not so sure that the human crews can take it. At 50,000 ft., where a jet plane can fly, the air is no use to the pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space. At a slightly higher altitude (63,000 ft.), his warm blood would boil, making his flesh swell up with bubbles like cookies baking in an oven...
...contested claim. Ruled the FPC majority: under the court decisions, FPC could not grant Algonquin's plea. Instead, FPC ordered new hearings to decide if Northeastern should get the whole market. Not only did Algonquin face expensive delays while the new hearing dragged on. But should it lose, it faced the gloomy prospect of trying to sell its premature pipeline for what it could get to the only possible bidder: its No. 1 enemy, Gardiner Symonds of Northeastern...
...quite good, especially the barroom scene at the end of the first act and the Indian ballot in the second act. The production's scenery, however, was tiring. Only when a hotel frame was moved before the broad expanse of exaggerated desert did the main set lose its flat character. In contrast, design of the barroom set combined with the lighting in that scene sat off the ballot well...