Word: pri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the House: ¶ Killed (203-191) a Senate-approved, Democratic-sponsored bill to authorize federal construction of nuclear reactors in a new $400 million public-power project, thereby heeding the Administration's pri mary reliance upon private enterprise in this field...
...food for Pri[s]oners and I the scap[e]goat...
...Journal, as alert and sharp-eyed as a rooster, has a tabloid-moralistic habit of playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break...
Citizen's Army. In Belleville, 111., Pri vate Rollie Summers Jr., captured on the 32nd day of his third AWOL trip in three months' service, told police that he does not like Army life...
...Trouble. With three other candidates running, the campaign had been about as lively as one-party rule permits. Multimillionaire General Miguel Henriquez Guzman made a particularly spirited bid, and some 22 partisans were killed in pre-election scuffles. But by the time the PRI poured 85 million pesos ($9,800,000) into the campaign and Ruiz Cortines toured through towns and hamlets all over the republic, the government had things well sewed up. On the actual day of balloting, 80,000 armed troops and police stood guard; not a single shot was fired, and only two men were arrested...