Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damocles' sword. The opposition Ulus has been cut to one-fifth its normal supply, forcing a reduction in its circulation from 100,000 to 20,000. "They'd cut me off entirely," says Publisher Kasim Gulek, "but it would be difficult to explain why they want to ruin the newspaper founded by Ataturk...
Danny plays a master in a British public school who takes a holiday in Sussex to look for a lost Roman bronze. While he is tunneling away beneath an improbable-looking ruin, a traveling circus pitches tent in the vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand...
Good Old Days. The 1,500,000 who obeyed the back-Frondizi order were the remnants of the massive Peronista labor movement. Perón built the movement by pampering the workers with inflationary wage boosts, and was overthrown before they reaped the economic ruin he had sown. Now pinched by Aramburu's austere battle to rebuild the damaged economy, the workers fondly recall the good old days, never dream of blaming Perón for the mess he left behind...
...power that the nation had-or ought to have-in the world. But although T.R. controlled the White House, it was National Committee Chairman Hanna who controlled the G.O.P. organization, Mark Hanna who could water down or wreck T.R.'s programs in Congress, Mark Hanna who could ruin T.R.'s influence by blocking his nomination in 1904. So T.R., ruthlessly shrugging off Hanna's loyal promises to cooperate, condemned Hanna to political death. Method of death: rapid-fire dismissal of pro-Hanna Republicans from patronage jobs in Hanna's Midwestern strongholds, installation...
...does.) But no one in Washington could give the delegation much encouragement that the tariff would not be raised. Said Tamaki: "I simply cannot believe that you Americans, if you knew the facts-and realized that the signing of this Tariff Commission recommendation would mean the ruin of 50,000 people who think, live and believe in the same principles you do-would allow this tragedy to occur...