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...object of their veneration is enshrined in a white stone building in the Pare de St. Cloud. When the pilgrims have filed down three flights of basement stairs, they will be confronted by two iron doors. Behind those doors, in a massive concrete vault, lies the object...
...face of previous commitments by both chambers of Congress, the House lopped off more than $2 billion from funds already authorized for ECA and other foreign aid. The cuts were made by New York's John Taber, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a man always vigilant to pare a cheese. He sliced $170 million off China aid, $75 million off aid to Greece and Turkey, $150 million off occupation funds, and $1,745 million...
...ringing rebuke to Annie for "relentlessly poisoning the minds of his superiors . . . with the purpose of ruining him." Buddy De Sylva, hit songwriter of the '20s (Good News, April Showers, Wishing) and producer (Panama Hat tie, Louisiana Purchase, DuBarry Was a Lady), persuaded a court to pare down the support payments he has to make to his onetime good friend and secretary, Marie Ballentine, and their four-year-old son. Starting next March it will be $650 a month instead...
bare dare fare pare rare ? from care hare mare tare ware yare
...intricacies of slit-trench excavation bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...