Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board of Education officials testified that they were asked to solicit political campaign contributions for District Attorney Frank Hogan (unknown to Hogan) from architects doing business with the board. The chairman of the board's Committee on Buildings and Sites was revealed as the leading stockholder in an outfit owning land on which a new school was to be built...
...gold reserve, and-in addition to the preparation for future political maneuvers-Stalin achieved his greatest triumphs of Communist propaganda, doublethink in action. "War for Peace" was his gimmick. It was not in vain that George Orwell fought in Spain. He served with the POUM, a Trotskyite outfit marked for liquidation, was wounded in battle-and thus lived to write 1984, in which "War Is Peace...
Dedicated Men. Yet for all its charming ways, the 159th Fighter Group is considered by the Pentagon to be a crack Air National Guard outfit. The group can put eight of its 16 F-102 jet interceptors into the air within 20 minutes, can come to full operational strength (pilots, maintenance men, armorers) in less than an hour. The hard core of the 800-man group is 175 fulltime employees who are classified as "civilian personnel.'' With little real responsibility, many of the remaining 625 might be bored with the Guard-were it not for the annual training...
...warning stuck. By using credit as their father had taught them, the boys recouped their losses and began to expand their holdings. Perhaps the most spectacular performance was Clint Jr.'s purchase of the City Construction Co., a Dallas road-paving outfit. He put up only $20,000 in cash to buy the company, met the rest of the price with an $80,000 promissory note. Then he borrowed to buy up other companies, moved into highway construction, dam building, land development and heavy construction by using his growing combines as collateral against each new acquisition. Gradually his original...
Last month Topping got city approval to expand U.S.C.'s tight campus to a roomier 138 acres. This week he will dedicate two new medical buildings, costing $3,000,000. But more impressive than buildings is the lift in faculty morale. "Topping has infused the whole outfit with new vigor and direction." glows veteran English Professor Frank Baxter. "Now other schools are raiding our staff. That didn't happen before...