Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, booming Canada wound up with a budget surplus. The 1954-55 budget, presented to Parliament last week, reported a $10 million surplus from last year. That was the smallest since 1946, too small to permit any income-tax cuts, but still big enough to keep Canada in the select group of countries currently operating in the black...
...showpiece for Rome's two-week International Conference on Contemporary Music. Familiar as they were with operatic plots featuring faithless love (Pagliacci), harlotry (Traviata), rape (Don Giovanni), incest (Die Walküre), bastardy (Norma), Gomorrahism (The Rake's Progress) and murder (Tosca, etc.), Rome's select first-night audience balked at Boulevard Solitude...
Housed in an 1801 Georgian mansion and surrounded by beautiful gardens, a handful of resident and visiting scholars and a select group of fellows carry on studies in almost every aspect of the culture of the Byzantine empire...
...proven record of impartiality, and who had never before taken part in a major government investigation. Senator Mundt played his hand carefully. Instead of starting the investigation immediately, when public opinion was strongly in favor of the Army, he waited two weeks on the pretext that he had to select a counsel. But he didn't have far to look. In his desk he had a letter from Samuel P. Sears '17, asking...
Such was the man who moved in Rome's most select circles, who addressed the national chief of police Tommaso Pavone with the intimate "tu." Many of those who originally doubted La Caglio's story changed their minds. The Communists promptly trumpeted the fact that Scelba and Montagna had both been witnesses at the wedding of Spataro's son two years ago, pointed out that Scelba himself had appointed Pavone chief of police...