Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breather (Dwight Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...
...thefts are rife" among the athletes. "No comprehensive effort is made to screen the backgrounds of students coming into the institution, and the result has been a singularly unsuited group of men since the war at the institution to participate in athletics. One of them ... is now serving a term of one to 20 years for armed robbery." But, in spite of the scandal, in the two months before sentence was actually passed, McCue was out there on the Western Illinois gridiron, complete with scholarship and the personal approval of President...
...House will use the balance of approximately $900 to set up a long-term program with two distinct parts...
...special section room last year forced Winthrop to commit about fifty percent of this year's Ford grant to meet its cost. A portion of next year's gift also will be allocated for this purpose, Mavrinac indicated, but the remainder will be used for the long-term program...
...only merit I think the device has is that it makes narration easier. You can take your hero and see him as a reaction towards certain stimuli, and then by reminiscence--better term--you gradually learn why he has this behavior pattern. It makes for considerable vividness in narrative. It's a very dangerous device, though; if it doesn't all go together in one piece, it's the most awkward thing you possibly could...