Word: meas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Postwar German fiction has its mea culpa school, its black-humor crowd and its how-did-it-happen-to-us hand wringers. Heinrich Boll (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) constitutes a school of his own. His writing skills seem at first oldfashioned, but they always turn out to be just right for hitting his targets: hypocrisy, his countrymen's haste to forget the Hitlerite period, the greed of the fat-cat crowd. In this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help...
...contritely candid performance last week before the House Government Operations Subcommittee, Gaud pleaded mea culpa for AID's foulups. In defense of his agency, however, Gaud pointed out that in the seven years of its existence, Congress has never seen fit to put AID on a permanent basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency...
...cease defining and defending American foreign policies in grossly oversimplified terms. Let us also desist from the excessive spirit of mea culpa which permeates certain quarters of American society." Since World War II, they said, the U.S. has performed remarkably well in international affairs...
...Wife: "Mea Katie, meus Christus. I give more credit to Katherine than to Christ, who has done so much more...
...their pockets. Bedas, who was out of the country when the crisis struck, has stayed out, but has been scouring the U.S. and other financial markets, where he has raised a reported $70 million. And if the bank wants to raise cash by selling off such assets as MEA, the interested buyers include France, Russia, Kuwait and even Stavros Niarchos. Intra, in short, claims it could open tomorrow if it were allowed to. Despite a heavy dose of press criticism, Yaffi's government is going slow. "We are working hard," says Intra's Salha. "But when...