Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that was not what McCarthy said about Lattimore. He said that Lattimore was "the top Soviet espionage agent"-and to this day McCarthy has not produced a scrap of evidence indicating that Lattimore was a spy or in any way disloyal. The question of whether Lattimore's analysis of the Far East was correct or incorrect-which is still a highly relevant and important question-does not interest...
...right to the chin settled the rugged scrap referee Buck McTiernan halting the scheduled 12-rounder as Layne tried to struggle to his feet...
Lovett took the scrap away from the J.C.S., handed it to his civilian secretaries of Army, Navy and Air. Last week he took their answer back to the Joint Chiefs, told them they would sit in conference until they agreed. That same-night the Statement of Forces was unanimously accepted...
Switch in Biarritz The Empress Eugenie always loved Biarritz, and Biarritz felt the same way about Eugenie. Until World War II, a bas-relief sculpture of her stood on the town's seaside boulevard; then the Germans carted it away for scrap metal. Biarritz somehow didn't look right without her. This spring, the city fathers signed up a 28-year-old Chilean sculptor named Juan Luis Cousino to carve a new statue. The sculptor's advance design was perfect: a gay, wasp-waisted Eugenie in swirling crinolines. Last week the city fathers were hopping mad. They...
...putting profits before patriotism. But in Chicago, the A.F.L. Meat Cutters' union put the blame squarely on price controls. The union made it clear that the packers could not sell the beef because they could not buy it on the hoof without losing money. "It is better to scrap all meat controls," warned the union, "than to precipitate a meat shortage, black markets and industry unemployment...