Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done exactly what Ohio's hardheaded, conservative Robert Alphonso Taft had demanded for months, usually with small support. It had passed an amendment declaring that for whatever the Federal Government spends (after 1947) there must be new taxes "to prevent any net increase in the federal debt." In short, the Senate had taken a stand for that all but forgotten institution, the balanced budget...
...What some countries of the West call freedom of the press is nothing but a rope on which a capitalist publisher keeps his journalists. If the rope is long enough, freedom of speech is relatively long. If the rope is short freedom of speech is short-cropped...
...Touched Me! (by Tennessee Williams & Donald Windham; "suggested" by D. H. Lawrence's short story; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is dubbed a "romantic comedy." Few romantic comedies have either soared with so much message or stooped to so many monkeyshines...
...this was only half the story. The real reason that sugar is so short is primarily the fault of the industry itself. The "unhealthy economics and unholy politics" of sugar make the industry produce too much sugar between wars and too little during them...
Equipped for Action. In Brigham City, Utah, Joseph Miller exchanged his first set of artificial limbs for a longer pair when he met a tall blonde, bought a short set for better balance when skiing...