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Word: staff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flinging his innuendoes high, wide and handsome, Schwartz paraded such names as White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and George Gordon Moore (Mamie Eisenhower's brother-in-law). He darkly suggested that they had improperly influenced the regulatory agencies-and in a later statement, even while admitting that he was far from developing any complete case, he cried that he had "planned to bring to light the machinations of the White House clique in controlling decisions of these agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Lo, the Investigator | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...editors of the News have little confidence in their swimming ability. They admit that the News does not have a sufficiently high reputation among students to insure adequate voluntary subscription. They insist, however, that with the backing of a compulsory subscribtion, the staff can raise the quality of the newspaper...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Radcliffe News | 2/20/1958 | See Source »

...hope," he said, "that Music 2 will be only the first of new courses for non-concentrators. Eventually, we hope to add a third course to the series." The number of courses open to non-musicians at present is limited by staff size, according to Ward...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Music Theory Offered For Non-Concentrators | 2/19/1958 | See Source »

...State Highway 45 to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His driver stuck to a prescribed route, minding strict instructions to "watch the high bluffs [where a sniper might lurk] and proceed swiftly." Through the day Ramfis sat attentively with his 620 classmates at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Guarding the Heir | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...Muehlebach Hotel, to which 200 of the area's best names have been invited. His classmates, many of them combat veterans, are given to wisecracks about the security net and Ramfis' exalted rank (even though he has temporarily downgraded himself to full colonel while at the staff college). Ramfis' Leavenworth neighbors, a quiet, upper-middle-class group, are jittery over the constant patrolling. "They even flash spotlights into my date's car," lamented a 17-year-old. "I've been embarrassed to death night after night. Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Guarding the Heir | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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