Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the proposed new scales, Cabinet members (whose salaries in many cases have been frozen since 1830) will get pay boosts too. But because Wilson is telling labor to hold the wage lines, he virtuously halved the committee's proposed raise for ministers, who now would go from $14...
This experience was so upsetting that the Faculty and Radcliffe parted ways for the first time in 1952. Then the Faculty mustered up a small lead for Eisenhower, about 4-3, while Radcliffe tipped her scales discreetly in favor of Stevenson.
"Unless this country starts a conscientious program of better education, of vocational retraining, and of equal housing," he said, "equal opportunity in America will continue to be a myth. The scales of justice have been so heavily weighted against the Negroes for so long that you are not going to...
Political Potatoes. The price-resistance movement swept through New Delhi. Housewives banded together to buy milk directly from producers. Brij Mohan, 38, a city councilor, started trucking in potatoes from the Punjab, sold them at artificially low prices. "These are political potatoes, which can appear only once a year," said...
Though the Cantabrigians-six men and a girl-keep their eyes on the oddball, they also have a wayward way with words. Sounding like the BBC, B.C., a newscaster announces unctuously, "Here beginneth the first verse of the news," goeth on to report the latest Old Testament news flashes. Sports...