Word: seep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow-moving and small-scale though it was, land reform last spring began to come from Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic government in Rome, and to seep down to the cactus-studded plains of southeastern Italy. At first, only 27 peasants around San Severo received land-four hectares (9.9 acres) each. But it set the peasants thinking. A Communist troubleshooter was rushed to San Severo to quiet the doubts...
...year round.
Last week Byrd put his plan for 1952-53 into the Congressional Record.
It would chop the President's budget by $8.6 billion "without impairing
a single essential function." Main suggestions:
...machine sense. To most of them, a job applicant recommended by a political boss had two strikes on him. They had a contemptuous name for politicians: pols. From 1933 until late in the war, the New Dealers kept the pols down. About 1944 the pols began to seep back. Harry Truman opened the floodgates...
...Russia, one of the world's biggest areas, without a Moscow correspondent. Answer: the best way we can, with our Russian Desk reading the lines and between the lines of Russian periodicals, with diplomatic contacts in our Washington bureau and abroad, and with trickles of information which seep through the Iron Curtain...
Some extremely odd and unpalatable aspects of Benjamin Freedman's charges began to seep out in testimony. The letter of indictment which he sent the Senate had been drafted with the help of Jew-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith in the offices of Mississippi's vitriolic Representative John Rankin. Freedman testified that he had been visited by Don Surine (an employee of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy) and Edward K. Nellor (an employee of Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.), who came bearing a letter of introduction from Rabble-Rouser Smith...