Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the three-man court and six-man jury in Bayreuth found Sommer guilty of murder, dealt to the master of punishment the maximum punishment permitted under West German law: life imprisonment. To the end Sommer was impassive. But when one German, looking at the cripple in the wheelchair, said, "You have already paid for your bestialities," Sommer wept gratefully in pity-for himself...
...entered in Tennessee's impending primary elections, Nashville's WSM-TV and WLAC-TV have imposed strict limits on the total air time to be sold to any one candidate. WSM-TV ruled that the eight contestants for the Democratic nomination for Governor would be allocated a maximum of 45 minutes each between now and the primary on Aug. 7. Slightly more generous, WLAC-TV allowed them one hour of prime evening time, half an hour of nonpremium time. Candidates for the U.S. Senate and House will get the same allowance. Except for spot announcements, candidates for local...
Painter Dali called his creation Crisalida and explained in his notes: "The outer structure of Miltown is that of a chrysalis, maximum symbol of the vital nirvana which paves the way for the dazzling dawn of the butterfly, in its turn the symbol of the human soul." Any resemblance between Miltown and a chrysalis, doctors agreed, was confined to Dali's fancy. Still, the word chrysalis is derived from the Greek for gold, and no matter how untranquilizing Dali's work might be, as an attention-getter it was worth its weight in gold to Miltown...
...Maleter and two other lesser leaders of the Hungarian revolt were in wanton defiance of public pledges (see below) given by the puppet Communist government maintained by Russian tanks in Budapest. The official announcement of the executions by the Hungarian government was made in a manner calculated to achieve maximum international publicity. It conceded that neither Nagy nor Maleter had confessed guilt, deliberately failed to give the date of their execution (which probably occurred only a few hours before issuance of the communique). Asked when the trial had taken place, Chief Prosecutor Geza Szenasi displayed what presumably passes in Communist...
...House had done much more than okay another lease on life for the Trade Agreements Act, originally passed in 1934 and extended ten times since. Taking a long stride toward freer trade and away from isolationism, the House extended the act for five years instead of the previous maximum of three, granted the President broader trade powers than ever before, including authority to pare tariffs by as much as 10% in a single year (but not more than 25% over the five years). "This is an historic action," said Arkansas Democrat Wilbur D. Mills, the Democratic strategist who guided...