Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government board. Where it was feasible, the president could order limited production to protect the nation's safety while both sides are being heard. At the end of the initial thirty days of inquiry, the President should have the power to order an additional ninety days of the status quo if agreement has not been reached...
...Thomas John Willoughby Winterton, Military Governor of Trieste (and also commander of the British and U.S. troops there). General Winterton's tough cops are not liked. Paid twice the salaries of Italian cops, they are also suspect by Triestini as contented Independentistas who want to keep the status quo...
...China. In a series of carefully mortised negotiations from Saigon to Washington to Paris, Dulles persuaded the French government to promise General Henri Navarre enough troops to carry out "the Navarre Plan" for defeating the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. The U.S.'s quid for France's quo: a promise of $385 million in aid over the next year for the war in Indo-China. Under Dulles' pressure France also gave assurances of independence to the native states of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. This meant that Indo-Chinese nationalists were no longer faced with a choice...
...Harry Truman signed an order giving most of them the equivalent of civil-service protection. In April, Eisenhower partially undid Truman's work by ordering that top bureaucratic policymakers (about 800) be stripped of their job security. Last month, in a further return to the status quo ante Truman, Ike decreed that all nonveterans who held full-time Schedule A jobs (nearly 54,000) should thenceforth be subject to dismissal at the will of their bosses...
...Ramo." "Cum quo facit?" "Cum fratre." Just how far his method can be carried, Rebel Sweet himself does not know. But after years of crusading, he is sure of one thing: "I used to think that I wouldn't be able to find many people to talk Latin with. But I need not have worried. Everywhere I go, Latin is a hot subject...