Word: poses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami on the eve of the convention, opposition candidates scurried about trying to throw up a stop-Hoffa united front. (One powerful new contender: Chicago Vice President William A. Lee.) But Jimmy Hoffa kept his pose as an unstoppable front runner, predicted confidently that he would win on the first ballot. Despite suits, threats of expulsion and all the revelations of the McClellan committee, it seemed, the Teamsters were still going to have the opportunity of replacing tarnished President David Daniel Beck with smirched and smirking James Riddle Hoffa...
...imports by $396 million, and that hardy old bogey, the dollar gap, was once again casting its specter over Europe. (Even the Germans have an unfavorable balance of trade with the U.S.) At this week's International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, Thorneycroft and other European delegates will pose anew the old question: How can Europe play in the poker game of international finance and trade when the U.S. holds the chips? The implied European threat is to set up its own separate game, cutting all the U.S. imports...
...danger is that the effort will be sabotaged by the bureaucrats, those who have made a career of emergency-type, government-to-government foreign aid. Not only does the new program pose a sharp threat to the perpetuation of much of foreign aid in its present form; it calls for a completely new approach. Instead of handing over foreign-aid funds in lump sums to foreign governments to pass out as they wish, it now also becomes necessary to find worthy loan possibilities among private businessmen unable to get credit in their own countries or from U.S. banks...
...third term as Governor next year. A few others will be against him because they feel he is not forceful enough on the race issue, and will support an ardent segregationist such as State Attorney General Bruce Bennett. But at present it appears that Faubus will be able to pose successfully as the tragic hero of a long battle for states and constitutional rights...
...When we put a team together, it scored two goals in ten minutes," Munro said at the end of the first full-length scrimmage, "and that's pretty good." Last year's varsity attack rarely earned such praise. Munro noted, however, that weakness at the fullback positions will pose a major defensive problem. He pointed to several sophomores as likely to be tried there this week...