Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his three terms he ruled autocratically, fought the New Deal, and brought Georgia education to a low estate with his witch hunts in schools and colleges. His rallying cry was "white supremacy." This week as his body lay in state under the state capitol dome, there stood nearby a huge floral wreath with the inscription "K.K.K...
...backed Antonio Bermúdez was treasurer of the state of Chihuahua, an acquaintance went to him and said: "Antonio, my friend, I want to import several carloads of alcohol from the U.S., and if I pay taxes on it it will be very expensive. . . ." Bermúdez usually low-pitched voice rose to a roar: "If I invite you to my house for dinner then you can call me Antonio and call me your friend. Here you address me properly as an official of the state. You will of course pay taxes like everybody else-adios...
Except when affected by local conditions (such as low level radiation), the air gets steadily colder with increased altitude. The decline continues up to the top of the troposphere (the atmosphere's lowest layer). Above this lies the stratosphere, where the temperature remains almost constant...
...week's end, the Bank's prestige had fallen so low that its directors supposedly called on Harry Truman to draft a man for the president's job. Their latest choice: Allan Sproul, 50, who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York but is not the kind of "name" the bank needed. While Sproul (rhymes with owl) was mulling over the offer, another name was dropped in the hat: Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Health Minister Aneurin Bevan had worked hard to win the doctors over. On his side were the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, a majority of medical men in the military services, and most low-income medicos. To reassure opponents, the bill left open to negotiation the key questions of pay and terms of employment under the plan (the B.M.A. vote was on the question of whether to enter such negotiations). To sweeten a provision most obnoxious to doctors-a ban on the sale of practices-Bevan set up a $266,000,000 fund for payments to physicians at retirement...