Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was '48. In its first week, some of the world's people managed to face the new year gaily, many with dull resignation, most in doubt. But they all had one fervent, minimum hope: that this would be a better year than the one just gone...
...proposed time and time again. He reiterated the program that has come to be accepted as the core of liberal aspirations for the immediate future of the country. He plumped for civil liberties, extension of social security, better education, a national health program, preservation of our national resources, higher minimum wages, more houses, continued assistance to farmers--all of which add up to a higher standard of living...
...prettily dressed and decorated. Sylvia Sidney, as the target for tonight, and John Hodiak, as the maniac, play it as if they 1) wished they were elsewhere, but 2) felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
...House Appropriations Committee, caused a gnashing of teeth, even among his fellow Republicans. To go with a $597 million authorization, John Taber brought out an appropriation bill providing actual cash of only $509 million. For France, Austria and Italy, this meant $88 million less than the "irreducible minimum" set by the Administration and approved by the G.O.P. foreign-policy leader, Arthur Vandenberg. For China, which the House had insisted on including among the aid recipients, the Taber bill provided not one cent. The State Department, said John Taber, had not "justified" China's need (see Foreign Relations). For good...
...campaign had been heated but clean-cut, with a minimum of mudslinging. Loser Caldera accused Acción Democrática of "exclusivism," and charged the government with Communist tendencies. (The Communist candidate ran a poor third.) Of Gallegos, he said: "Nobody doubts the sincerity of Gallegos and nobody believes in the sincerity of Acción Democrática...