Word: surely
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Certainly Ford reflected the popular mood when he said that cutting Government spending was a better way to fight inflation than raising taxes, as Johnson proposes, but the fact is that Congress failed either to raise taxes or make an appreciable dent in spending. The Republicans tried, to be sure, but the only specific saving Dirksen would gloat over was foreign aid, the program with no broad lobby in this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present...
...reducing exterior pressure on the abdominal wall, Heyns hoped to allow it to protrude further, accommodating the changing shape of the womb. He and his colleagues put together a crude decompression device, tried it out on several expectant mothers. Sure enough, it produced a dramatic shortening in the duration of labor, reduced discomfort, and brought the women who submitted to the tests into the final stages of birth in a more relaxed and vigorous state. Word of the boon soon spread...
...wants to introduce a new military concept-victory." Ronald Reagan, says Bob, "has a secret plan to win the war. He will release it just as soon as John Wayne finishes his picture." And how about that White House wedding? "Lynda Bird looked just marvelous, and I'm sure she and General Robb will be happy when they come back from their honeymoon." When the young couple left the White House, "L.B.J. threw a pair of old shoes at them. Unfortunately Hubert was still in them...
...dialogue marks a change of voice for Williams, in that he varies his rich, sustained melodic line with bursts of terse, economic verbal counterpoint between the two actors. In the London production, Mary Ure and Peter Wyn-garde were critically acclaimed for the sure-footed skill they displayed in handling the rapid-fire crisscross of dialogue. There are no present plans for an American production, but it would be peculiarly ironic if Broadway were to receive the work of the finest living U.S. playwright as still another British import...
...have meant a virtual depletion of men very near the practice of their profession, whether it be engineer or political scientist. Under the new system, however, not nearly so many older men will be taken. They will be replaced by 19-year-olds, men hardly close to or even sure of their future profession...