Word: personality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans do. He antagonized a lot of Italians by telling them that land reform was bad because it would decrease production. This, he said, was just his personal opinion; Italians had a hard time distinguishing between Zellerbach, the person, and Zellerbach, the ECAdministrator...
...wartime taxes got good news last week. In his budget speech, Finance Minister Doug Abbott announced that the government would reduce its revenue from income taxes by 32%. Accordingly, he took 750,000 taxpayers off the lists by raising the exemptions from $750 to $1,000 for a single person and from $1,500 to $2,000 for a married couple with no children.* For those who still had to pay, the rates were trimmed. The new rates and exemptions would be retroactive to the first of the year (and the refund checks would go out just before election time...
...when Haigh was formally charged with Mrs. Durand-Deacon's murder last month, the stories were toned down in conformance with law and immemorial British journalistic practice. Once a person has been charged with a crime, English law prohibits publication of evidence that might prejudice a fair trial for the accused...
...sort of memorial," he plans to do his next play about his mother, who died recently. His friends supposed that here, finally, was a subject that would need no research. But Kingsley is running true to form: "My mother was a very proud and mysterious person. There's a lot I don't know about her. I'm going to have to do a little detective work...
...ultimately discover your true vocation . . . What if the central figure [in a play] is a man of wealth and very old? And . . . people gather around to advise him what to do with his money? The joke will of course be, that there is no such thing as a wealthy person nowadays...