Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiking his debate with partisan references to "vicuña" and "Eisenhower recession," Passman-armed with an impressive amount of detail on the program -got away virtually unchallenged with horrendous buckshot charges. Sample: "The defense support part of this program in all probability has been responsible for more bribery, overpricing, conniving and profit taking on the part of officials and friends of officials in foreign nations than any program ever conceived by the mind...
...President Dewey." Josephine Nichols, as his scatter-brained wife, would be fine if she didn't keep letting her voice rise to a shrill level. Kathern Shaw and Jeff Davis make an appealing pair of lovers, while Stratton Walling, John Lasell and an amazingly well-trained cat give capable support...
...University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist Wendell M. Stanley might have begun his San Francisco lecture. For many physicians thought that Stanley had gone much too far when he suggested that viruses, or virus-like particles, might be responsible for all forms of cancer. But in support of his hypothesis, Stanley last week marshaled a phalanx of evidence from more than a dozen high-powered researchers as well as from his own laboratories...
...saturated that Standard Oil of California decided to withdraw a planned $150 million offering because the underwriters' suggested price was too high. A $20 million issue by Pacific Power & Light Co. was tough to sell even with a yield of 4.35%. Moreover, when two syndicates that had been supporting the AA-rated issues of Illinois Power Co. and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. withdrew their support, the bonds immediately dropped a point or two, and still had trouble finding buyers. Halsey, Stuart & Co., with a $50 million Consolidated Edison issue, was also in trouble, but it extended its underwriting pact...
...Sunday morning, Nov. 4, 1956, Budapest's Radio Kossuth broadcast a message ending with the words: "To every writer in the world ... to the intelligentsia of the world! We ask all of you for help and support . . .SOS!" Then, silence. The Hungarian revolt was being crushed, the writer-intellectuals of Hungary had spoken their last free words...