Word: quids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers did themselves proud: less than 1% of the world's population, they produced food for nearly half of the world. But there was a bill attached. As the farmer's production went up, so did his profits-and his prices. As the quid pro quo for his vote for vitally needed wartime price controls, the Farm Bloc Congressmen got even higher parity prices and a law decreeing that they would be extended without letup for two years after hostilities ended...
...past the 20,000 mark, Latin letters were pouring in to Acta's office at the rate of 200 an issue. Readers from six-year-olds to greybeards had the usual complaints. Poppaedius, said one, was "sordidum, plebeium . . . indecorum," and some fretted because a puzzle solution was omitted ("Quid? Nulla solutio...
Argentina's willingness to give quid pro quo was the decisive factor in convincing the State Department that Miller's, new policy could work...
...secret codicils, a ceremonious exchange of handshakes, or nods of the head between the Russians and the Chinese. "We know something about Mr. Mao Tse-tung and Mr. Chou En-lai," observed a British Foreign Office spokesman, "but, frankly, the gentleman we are most interested in is Mr. Quid...
Most likely quid pro quos: ¶In return for the extension of Russia's stay in Manchuria, support for Chinese Communist infiltration inSoutheast Asia. ¶ In return for Soviet credits, more food and perhaps a labor force from China to Russia. ¶In return for Soviet military advice and equipment, the installation of Russian watchdogs in the Chinese army and government...