Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House was about three weeks behind the usual schedule in its appropriation bills. Members talked grandly about pruning appropriations, but they did their pruning with embroidery scissors. Just before it sped away on its recess, the House managed to snip-snip .09% off $2.9 billion funds for Treasury and Post Office. No work at all had been done on the mammoth armed services bill; after all the brave talk about higher income and corporate taxes, there was no chance of a tax bill before late summer or fall. A good deal of the legislative structure of the industrial mobilization program...
...State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs, he 1) assiduously promoted an anti-Chiang policy that played right into Mao's hands; 2) rewrote, with Acheson's approval, the original War Department directive for the ill-starred Marshall mission, changed it into the policy that sped the Communist victory in China...
...four divisions to the Han, while a few North Korean rearguards scrambled across the thawing and treacherous ice. While British tanks dueled across the river with Communist self-propelled guns (and with one captured British tank fired by the Reds from a tunnel), two armored U.S. task forces sped northwest and west to take Kimpo Airfield, Korea's biggest, and Inchon, Seoul's port, without a fight. Both were almost total ruins...
Rattling Dance. The two electric trains quickly emerged from the tunnel; then, for the better part of ten minutes they sped along, one behind the other, through the multi-windowed darkness of Queens...
...sharp rebuff to the Russians, who had originally championed Lie, eventually turned against him because he had sped up U.N. action in Korea. It was also a slapdown of the veto used by Russia to block a Security Council vote in favor of Lie (TIME, Oct. 23). The Secretary General discreetly stayed at home, in Forest Hills, N.Y., until the Assembly finished the debate over him. Then he appeared at Flushing Meadow to voice his thanks...