Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total pay outgo by trimming manpower about 3% from all three services. Most radical novelty in the new budget: the President's request to Congress for authority to switch as much as $2 billion in defense funds from one category to another "to modify and accelerate programs on short notice if new discoveries and developments indicate shifts are desirable." Present law bars transfers of funds from one service to another...
...them. Dean's list students on past vacations, however, were given the opportunity to sign off board for up to one week if they planned to extend their absences. Team members participating in away athletic events can also avoid paying for food while they are away. Students who take short trips to complete research in other cities should receive an equivalent option...
...short, the Sullivans' advocacy of the proposal seems substantiated by little more solid than a desire to make the Basin appear a great deal more valuable than it now is. By spearheading the fight to cloak the land with an apparent mantle of industrial value, Mr. J.B. Sullivan stands to make a considerable profit...
...state's history. The board charged that a twenty-one dealer in the hotel casino had peeked at cards before dealing them, asked the State Tax Commission to suspend the hotel's gambling license. For Hotel President T. W. Richardson, it was the last straw. Short of cash and long on suspicious customers, he closed the casino while the commission pondered...
...tough prose. One minor character is wondering about what happened to another character named Angelo. "Twenty to life," replies another character named Frankie. "He killed some poor slob run a candy store. They shoulda juiced him, but they give him twenty to life. Just a hood." The Professional, in short, is a classic example of the Heming-wayward conviction that small words must be used to denote big things...