Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transport their characters to a combination of Biarritz and Capri. The resultant hybrid is not happy. Nor, sad to say, are the lines the participants are made to speak in their non-musical moments. The jokes, such as they are, represent the scum of dining room repartee, heavily reliant on puns about sex. The satirical moments succeed only once, when the characters rush together for a group picture...
...onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when...
...prosperous time, meet the cost of the service they desire of their government? Or is it to be our established policy to follow the ruinous route of free republics of the past ages, the route of deficit financing, of inflation, of taxes ever rising, until all initiative and self-reliant enterprise are destroyed...
...goal," he said, "is to enable free nations to achieve a momentum of economic progress which will make it possible for them to go forward in self-reliant growth." But the divergence in the two policy outlooks is at least as striking as the difference between Eisenhower's professed aims and the policies he will seek to attain them. "The United States," he said, "will press these measures energetically, consistent with the maintenance of a sound domestic economy." (Italics ours...
...effort to keep black and white strictly apart, tall, Dutch-born Minister of Native Affairs Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd recently got the Native Laws amended so that he now has control of practically every social contact between the races, even in white areas-schools, hospitals, clubs and churches. Stubbornly self-reliant Minister Verwoerd (pronounced Fairvoort) boasts that not one of his seven children has ever been bathed or put to bed by an African servant. Like most stout Boer nationalists, he holds that God intended that races be kept apart. The church clause in the new law gives him power...