Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been years since appropriations had been in such a sorry shape. Though the House had whipped through all its major money bills by mid-April, the Senate had dawdled for months, still had $29 billion-almost three-fourths of the budget-to approve. Twice the House had extended the time limit. Last week, after venting its spleen, the House voted another extension rather than risk the alternative : payless paydays for some 2½ million federal employees...
Hathorn testified that he refused to go along, even though Vaughan finally got "a little rough" and announced that "he could get my job." The subcommittee congratulated him heartily when he left the stand...
...watches, absorbed, the mating dance of the scorpions: "These hideous devotees of gaiety provide a dance that is not wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult; a confused mass of swarming legs, snapping claws, tails curving and clashing, threatening or fondling, it is hard to say which. All, large and small alike, take part in the brawl; it might be a battle to the death, a general massacre; and it is just a wanton frolic...
Congo Cardinal? The two traditional seats vacant within the Russian sphere of influence-Prague and Warsaw-may not be filled. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It would be humiliating for the Holy See if those governments delayed or refused exit permits, as they did to Mindszenty, even though it is not absolutely necessary for a newly created cardinal to be present at the consistory." In the particular case of Prague's Archbishop Beran, some Catholic authorities fear that the Communist government would consider his elevation a provocative act, and retaliate by attacking...
...turned out to be quite a good solution. Springfield was chosen (though on one ballot a disgusted vote was cast for Purgatory), the voters got their new county, and Representative Lincoln got reelected. He moved to Springfield himself and set up shop as a lawyer, with something of a reputation...