Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after midnight when the vote came. And then by a 53-to-15 vote, the Senate decisively rejected the nomination of New Dealer Leland Olds for a third term on the Federal Power Commission...
...this guaranteed victory to James Michael Curley. The old man liked it better when the ring was crowded; there was a choice of targets, and his opponents might knock each other out instead of him. Curley might yet be around to horrify Boston's reformers for another term...
Redheaded Use, also known as the Bitch of Buchenwald, whose life sentence for participating in the management of the concentration camp had been reduced to four years "for lack of evidence" by a U.S. Army board of review (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), had reached the end of her prison term at Landsberg. She had, it seemed, managed to keep busy during her stay in stir. She declined to discuss the bastard child to whom she gave birth two years ago in prison, but showing off her fairly fluent English, she told reporters that she had been writing her memoirs...
...effect. Other Oxonians, including a batch of other Rhodes scholars, dashed to their desks to compose retorts for the next week's issue of I sis. It looked as though the year was off to a splendid start, with enough to sparkle and stutter about all through Michaelmas term...
While many of the men who will be running the half mile and mile this winter and spring are now on the cross country squad, informal practice for sprinters, and field events men has been going on since the beginning of the term. "Now while we can still work outside is the best time to get started," Jaakko claims...