Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as the family doesn't object, the placement bureau permits lonely sitters to bring girls with them. Of course this ruins chances for study, but then it's not every day you can get paid for having a date...
...object of Jenner's wrath was the $5.5 billion authorization bill to carry ECA through its next 15 months of operation (see INTERNATIONAL). All week long a little knot of Republicans chipped and chiseled away at the whole tripod of U.S. foreign policy-ECA, the North Atlantic pact, the arms program for Western Europe. Their weapon was an amendment drafted by Nebraska's Republican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, which would lop $1.9 billion off ECA's budget and extend it only a year...
...result of the finding, botanists are able to construct a picture of over 4,000 years of corn evolution, from the earliest type to the present day garden variety. This revelation permits scientists to gain valuable information about the proper breeding of corn, now an important object of botanical research...
...language through the back jungle trails to his native village. There, while Karens guarded the house, he reverently unwrapped the mythical lost book in the flickering light of a primitive lamp. At the sight of the treasure, some villagers bowed down; some wept with happiness; others caressed the sacred object. For decades the Karen Baptists remained a persecuted religious minority. As late as 1851, one Burman ruler threatened to shoot the first Karen he caught who was able to read...
...awkward, sham-Dling, sleepwalking unawareness that normal children have when they are not caught in the glare of klieglights or an adult eye. The result is a subtle, absorbing drama of natural child behavior. A brilliant tour de force as entertainment, Idol could also be a useful object lesson on how to restore he Hollywood child to childhood...