Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman bled for a while in silence. Then he picked himself up and told everyone firmly that he felt fine. Furthermore, he said, he was going to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, even if it took him the rest of his four years...
...government will be formally headed by a president. Real power will rest with the chancellor (whose job corresponds to that of premier), appointed by the president and responsible to the parliament (the Bund). The lower house will be the Bundestag, with members elected by the people. The upper house will be the Bundesrat; its members will be elected by the state legislatures. The federal government has legislative power in such fields as foreign affairs and trade, currency, and certain forms of taxation. In other fields the federal and state governments share powers...
Last week, the Perón regime's nationalization program, which had already absorbed railroads, telephones and other utilities, took over Dodero's ships, his shares in an airline, and all the rest of his Argentine business property except five apartment houses. The terms were those of a forced sale: 26 million pesos (less than $3,000,000) for the controlling stock...
...rest of the team played its worst golf of the season, but managed to grab sixth place in the 25-squad field. Boston College broke the course record with a 293 score-an average tournament for the second year...
...long pull through the middle of the race. Here the first variation in strategy appears, as the different strokes set the beat. Bill Curwen, for instance, never takes more than 10 sprinting strokes at the start, and then drops the beat all the way down to 31 for the rest of the race...