Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oilmen's complaints that rising crude-oil imports are discouraging exploration for new U.S. oil resources, thus threaten national security. ¶ Attended, with Mamie, a dedication ceremony opening the new $1,250,000 Islamic Center and Mosque on Massachusetts Avenue (see RELIGION). ¶ Nominated, for a nine-year term as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Arnold R. Jones, 53, of Manhattan, Kans. Republican Jones, Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget since April 1956, is on leave from Kansas State College, where .Ike's brother Milton (then Kansas State president) hired him as controller...
...just as the Administration was basking in this new after-the-battle calm, an ominous cloud of another color scooted across the horizon. Heart of the Eisenhower foreign policy is the foreign aid bill that sets up a long-term economic Development Loan Fund for providing loans to underdeveloped countries. Last month the Senate voted resounding endorsement (57-25) for the plan. Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee turned thumbs down on the Administration request, insisted on sticking with the year-to-year tradition, and recommended a $400 million slash below the $3.6 billion the Senate had authorized...
...Literally meaning "haughty," guappo is used in Neapolitan argot to denote a petty big shot, found its way into American slang in the early days of the melting pot as the uncomplimentary term...
...left knee toward his right he is stealing." ¶On a pitcher: "Has major-league fast ball but is disturbing type on mound; looks like a mental case." ¶ On another pitcher: "Not recommended on present style. Has major-league equipment but is a Thomas Edison"-a baseball term for any player who is continually experimenting...
...Assisi. the delegates sang the songs of their order's medieval days, laughed at Latin digs aimed at other orders, mourned the news from China, where 700 Franciscan missionaries have been reduced to one. Then they re-elected Minister-General Sépinski for a twelve-year term...