Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with unexpected order. Seven men were killed on election day. When the results began coming in, mild-mannered Ospina Perez knew that his ordeal was not ended. The Liberals led by more than 100,000 votes. They again controlled both houses of Congress, but unofficial returns cut their lower house majority from 15 to eight. At week's end, the President still had to choose between inviting the Liberals back into his cabinet or asking the army men to accompany him the rest of the way along the edge of his political precipice...
...magazine one day when he was strolling along Baker Street. The post office agreed to recognize the mythical 221B as a real address and assign it to the magazine, although Hall and his staff of four have had to set up temporary offices two miles away on Lower Belgrave Street...
...condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers." Reporters either deleted this section entirely or moved it much lower in their stories. The result, for most readers, was a simple statement that Communists should be banned from the teaching profession--top educators had come around and were finally siding with the "Little Dies" committees...
...every case, it is now easier for freshmen to obtain numerals than for varsity competitors to get H's, for the HAA requires participation in a smaller percentage of games, and a lower total of playing time for freshman sports awards...
Cold rubber (so called because it is cooked at 41° Fahrenheit, compared to 122° for regular synthetic) has been the sensation of the U.S. synthetic industry. Researchers first produced it during World War II. Because cold rubber is made at a lower temperature, it has a longer molecule which fits it to outwear natural rubber by as much...