Word: quids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with the offer to surrender these functions went a healthy quid pro quo: to finance them at the state level, the U.S. was prepared to relinquish to the states roughly a half share of federal inheritance and gift taxes ($1.3 billion this year), and about $542 million in excise taxes collected on such items as telephone calls and theater tickets...
...CHINCOM, maintain lists of items that can be marketed to the Soviet European bloc or to Red China, and in what amounts. The U.S. is prepared to negotiate off the stricter Chinese list such items as its fellow members, particularly Britain and Japan, want to remove. As a quid pro quo, and to help narrow the gap between the two sets of controls, some additional items may be added to the list covering the Soviet European bloc...
...Leader. The political story is that as members of the French Union, the interested tribesmen and traders of Mauritania elect one representative to the French National Assembly in Paris. Ten years ago Mauritania sent to Paris, on the Socialist ticket, an olive-skinned, white-haired Moslem politician named Horma Quid Babana. In last year's general election Quid Babana lost his seat to a hated rival, whose election he tried to invalidate. Failing to secure a patronage job as district tax collector in France, he became violently anti-French and joined the "Cairo" movement. Recently Ould Babana turned...
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...furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota repulsum, quid promissa iuvant? Tua quid praesagia, Gallup?" (Carefree translation: The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul-vain prayers, vain promises, vain Gallup poll!) Lauding his modesty, Higham quoted Truman's supposed resume of his first day's activity after returning to Independence in 1953: "Cistas...