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Word: nigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saw the same danger. "Every group is pressing on Washington to get more, more, more," said Steinkraus at a Cincinnati luncheon . . . "If we keep on this spending spree at the rate we are going . . . our tax burden will become well-nigh intolerable." The nation, he added, is "very near that point which economists refer to as the 'peril point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betrayal? | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...warn, with all the solemnity at my command," he said, "that building hydrogen bombs does not promise positive security for the United States; it only promises the negative result of averting, for a few months or years, well-nigh certain catastrophe . . . We are plunged into a truly terrible arms race." His proposal: 1) broadcast the story of U.S. motives and ideals behind the Iron Curtain by boosting the "Whisper of America" to a real, full-throated Voice of America; 2) offer $10 billion a year-which is two-thirds of the U.S. arms budget-for five years, to develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Urge to Do Something | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...will be hard enough to find a new coach under any policy, for Valpey has expressed by his departure what every sane coach must feel about Harvard. It will be well nigh impossible to collect a new coaching staff unless the University--the Corporation, the Overseers, the Alumni, and even the President--gives a fast, sure answer to the question posed by Arthur Valpey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Ball, Gentlemen | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

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