Word: renewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piqued at the leak because, he said, it would give "top-echelon people downtown more time to conduct their unprecedented pressure campaign for more money." Translation: he had hoped to sneak the cuts through the full Appropriations Committee next day, before the Eisenhower Administration got a chance to renew its all-out fight for an adequate aid program...
...metal as his lowered horn ripped through the truck's fender. The driver fled. The delighted crowd chanted for Matador Aparicio to take the driver's place, but he politely declined. Then an enthusiast leaped down from the public seats, raced to the truck cab to renew the battle. The crowd roared as it recognized Toledo's Mayor Joseé Conde Alonso. Secure in the driver's seat, the mayor circled the arena with the truck, looking for a chance to ram his enemy. The bull made faster turns and hit harder: he gored both fenders...
Technically, both Perez Jimenez and Estrada were admitted to the U.S. as "parolees," required to renew their visas every 30 days. Under the letter of the law there was no way to bar their entry, for neither had ever belonged to an organization unfriendly to the U.S., as specified in the McCarran Act. As political refugees, they had merely requested the same asylum that had been previously granted to other Venezuelan politicians, many of whom are now back in their own country. Perez Jimenez stayed close to his floodlighted Miami Beach hideaway (TIME, April 21), broke his seclusion...
...signing a fat new contract. But Curtice wrote that he could "make our position clear without a personal appearance." The nation, said Curtice, is afraid U.A.W. will make wage demands not "tailored to the economic facts of life." As a start toward restoring public confidence, Curtice asked U.A.W. to renew its present G.M. contract for two years, and stick by its 6?-an-hour annual wage increase...
...canceled its new, highly touted contract for a weekly column by Muggeridge. The BBC scheduled, then canceled, several TV shows on which Muggeridge might have had a chance to answer his critics. Last week, in the unkindest cut of all, the BBC announced that it "does not wish to renew Mr. Muggeridge's contract" for 26 TV appearances a year. Protested London's Daily Mirror: "If all views must agree with the BBC (Better Be Careful) censors, nothing worthwhile will ever be said." To Newsman Muggeridge, it seemed as if too much had been said already. Said...