Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an attempt by Committee Chairman J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas to split the $3.38 billion foreign-aid package into separate economic and military bills-a tactic by which he hoped to pare away more easily at the military portion. But the committee also rejected a request by President Johnson for authority to engage in blank-check military-assistance spending in Viet Nam. The committee softened the blow by increasing the President's contingency fund, designed to meet unforeseen cold-war crises anywhere, to $100 million, twice the amount requested...
...House, Florida's Representative Claude Pepper, 64, wandered Capitol Hill, not precisely friendless but somehow incompleat. Then, this January, Texas Democrat Jake Pickle, 41, took his seat in the House. Before anyone could say rubber baby-buggy bumpers, the two sponsored H.R. 2465, modifying a portion of the social security laws. It will be known to one and all, naturally, as the Pickle-Pepper bill. Purpose? Whereas, would winsome widows winning their way with welfare wealth wed wooers on social security themselves, why wish widows and wooers to lose whatever combined welfare wealth weddings would work...
Basically, each metal ring, activated by the electric impulse answers 1 or 0, meaning that it either does or does not represent a portion of the binary numeral sought. If the computer wishes to use the number 87, for example, it might get positive responses from the rings that made up the numbers 1, 2, 4, 16 and 64-for a total of 87-while receiving negative responses from the other rings. In a vast series of such instantaneous actions, thousands of transistors in the machine turn on and off in response to the electric impulses until the machine...
Hegan's Goat was produced at Sanders Theater in the fall of 1953, and Alfred has read selections from it to Cambridge audiences many times since then. In the summer of 1961, the CBS television program "Lamp Unto My Feet" presented a portion of the drama...
...convinced. I could hardly wait to take civics--"An up to date subject that explains how our democracy works and how you can help it work even better"; geography--"about the earth we live on and how it effects your life every day"; and air conditioning--"Advanced portion of the course teaches laying out duct systems, fans, blowers, air filters, pumps,...physiology of comfort, testing, instruments for testing...