Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charges that the new budget was "political" made scant sense in view of the strenuous arguments by some of the President's own Cabinet members that, in the mood of the times, taking a stand on a balanced budget is politically unprofitable (see Republicans). More to the point were the charges by New-Dealish Democrats that, in pushing for a balanced budget, the President was neglecting home-front welfare jobs that needed doing. But implicit in such complaints was an assumption that Dwight Eisenhower explicitly rejects: the assumption that it is the Federal Government's duty to take...
...organization and served as its secretary from 1952 until he joined Khrushchev's headquarters staff last year. Too young to have been active in the police terrorist years of Yezhov and Beria, Shelepin has not yet acquired the hateful public reputation that goes with the job. Two things stand out about his appointment: 1) he is a party bureaucrat, indicating the party's continuing dominance; 2) he is Khrushchev...
...years, smiled broadly and spoke confidently of the years ahead. He scarcely glanced at a small scrap of paper holding his brief notes, as he addressed the 1,700 members of Nationalist China's Mainland Recovery Planning Board. He stood straight without leaning on the speaker's stand, occasionally sipped from a glass of boiled water...
Halfway through the speech the President calmly announced that in keeping with the constitution of 1947, which has a two-term limit (six years to a term), he did not intend to stand for a third term next year. The audience's response was silence; to cheer might have been regarded as a sign of disrespect. But when Chiang went on to explain that close adherence to the constitution was "one of our weapons in waging war against the Communists," the audience, most of them National Assemblymen, broke into applause...
None of these happenings was supernatural. The village and its fields stand on a thin crust of soft clay over a vast labyrinth of caves and tunnels some 30 miles long where, since Roman times, men have undermined their homes by quarrying out the sandstone to build them. The quarries, abandoned in the 1900s, were put to new use in 1918 when Willem Heynen and other villagers discovered that the cave galleries had the ideal temperature and humidity for growing mushrooms...