Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe and bolstered in Indo-China, expect to come out with a lower MSA total than they got last year). ¶ Some $5,250,000,000 of the $5.8 billion will be spent for military hardware and other support. Economic aid (hitherto the prime concern of MSA and its predecessor, EGA) will be an indirect result of military buying from European suppliers or subsidies for European arms plants. ¶ About $550 million will be earmarked for continuing technical and economic development (Point Four) in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America...
...through it impressed his ideas firmly on Harvard much to everyone's benefit. Like all posts whose first occupants made them what they are, that of Provost and Dean will be very difficult to fill anew. If the new President makes as good a choice as his predecessor, though, Harvard need not fear the future; for while President Conant made many excellent decisions, his happiest was the one that made Paul H. Buck Provost and Dean...
...take any guff from his counterparts in Moscow. It said, "Stalin, foxy, will pull Ike's leg. Ike, an old hand, will not permit his leg to be pulled. Ike may pull Stalin's leg. The News also felt that diplomatically Malenkov would be quite similar to his predecessor. On March 20 the News declared, "Malenkov, like Stalin, will go on waging World War III, Russian style. Under Malenkov as under Stalin Russia is keeping the initiative in that war." And somehow, perhaps because of Ike's preference for the fairway, the News forgot about the gymnastic session...
...streets and Notting Hill chippies in their bareskins. "Always so polite and neatly dressed," said Mrs. Rose Bangle. ". . . Never passed a lady in the street without raising his hat." Checking back, the police found that John Christie had been the principal government witness in the case of his tenant-predecessor Tim Evans; near the end of his trial, in fact, Tim had recanted his confession and insisted that John Christie had committed the murders...
...best in the dance of the seven veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl in an off-the-shoulder gown by Jean Louis hairdo by Helen Hunt, and make-up by Clay Campbell. She wriggles, writhes and undulates through this predecessor of the modern striptease with such abandon, as she methodically removes as many veils (six) as the law and the Breen Office will allow, that moviegoers may come away with the feeling that never before has history been so colorful...