Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Roosevelt, "I am going to tell you something I have never told another living soul." Roosevelt dropped his voice to a whisper. "Of course I will not run for a third term...
...Besides the 'official' or constant contributions, there are also extraordinary ones to be paid. . . . 'Constructing fences payment' is a polite term for kidnaping for ransom. If a peasant is unlucky, the Fire Society can easily arrest him on a charge of 'collaborating with bandits.' If he is clever and rich enough to send in some $200,000 CN or $300,000 CN, he becomes a 'repented' good citizen. Otherwise, his charge will change from collaboration to 'being a bandit'-and the sentence is death...
...cause of the revolt was a very personal matter. Romero, a scapegrace distinguished by the possession of eleven fingers (double thumb on the left hand), had been sentenced to a 16-year prison term on a charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will...
...government machinery will roughly parallel that of the U.S., with a Senate and Chamber of Deputies, a Supreme Court with the power to pass on the constitutionality of laws. The President will be elected for a four-year term by direct universal suffrage, but cannot succeed himself for two following terms. Most controversial measure: the power given the President, subject to the approval of Congress, to order the "preventive detention of persons who there is reason to believe are implicated" in plans to overthrow the Government...
Buoyed by such news, most businessmen began to find new and softer meanings for the term recession. After the downturn this spring, many an economist had feared a fairly sharp drop. Yet even in industries where there had been a sudden slump, notably textiles, the readjustment had been made with no more than a tooth-shaking jar. Now there was hope that other adjustments could be made in a gradual, orderly fashion. So when businessmen talked of recession, most of them no longer meant a big, sudden crack un the whole economy, but a continuation, industry by industry...