Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where presidential prestige was at stake. After last autumn's Hungarian uprising, the President made outright and definite commitments to secure regular refugee status for about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned Ike last week: "We have about exhausted the possibilities of the parolee method, and without some congressional action, we will certainly be handicapped." But on the mechanics of obtaining faster congressional action, the President mustered only a soft promise: "I certainly do hope, and I will try to do my most, the best I can, to see that it does...
WASHINGTON April 18--President Eisenhower, whose budget for next year has been a target of criticism, today outlined a method of cutting appropriation...
...radical approach of calling a halt to the perpetual merry-go-round that surprises the economists. The present method of circular borrowing-to-repay-borrowing would probably accomplish almost equivalent results to those of the new scheme, which is, in essence, to stop all borrowing and repayment...
According to rumors, the University has adopted a wait-and-see attitude which may result in an upset of the traditional method of choosing distinguished individuals for the honor...
Sometime Actress Diana Barrymore is the latest to try this therapeutic method, following in the footsteps of Singer Lillian Roth, a former alcoholic who found fame, fortune and reform through the catharsis and the cash she gained by writing the bestselling I'll Cry Tomorrow. Diana Barrymore's lengthy confession is, if anything, more exhibitionist-and written with the help of the same public ghostwriter, onetime Newsman Gerold Frank, who took down Diana's outpourings in 2,000 pages of notes. What partly redeems the book is that it throws some light on one of America...