Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Peter Ustinov, 35, pudgy British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis, We're No Angels), and Suzanne Cloutier, 27, Canadian-born cinemactress: their second child, his third, a son; in London. Name: Igor Nicholas. Weight...
...time when the country is deeply worried about its wheat surplus would be a devious but possibly effective way to make friends. Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe made it clear, however, that as far as Canada was concerned, the business was strictly business. Said Howe: "No quid pro quo has been asked for and none has been offered...
Then, while the controversial natural gas bill was under heated debate on the floor of the Senate, South Dakota Senator Francis Case revealed that an oil company's agent had contributed $2,500 to his campaign fund in the hope that Case would respond with quid pro quo...
...live in slums, they would rather live in slums than gutters. Tearing down a tenement means displacing families. Eventually they may be able to find and afford a better house, but it is hard to live in a promise. And so, the politicians become representatives of the status quo...
...thoroughly in control that he had inspired cuts of $1.7 billion in Government expenses from the preceding fiscal year. Then, with the pattern set (he hoped), he quit as he had said he would, "for I detest this life ... As one who must be used to upset the status quo, I am not the logical man to continue the operation of the Budget Bureau...