Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convinced that foreign aid cannot be fully effective so long as it remains on a hand-to-mouth, year-by-year basis, President Kennedy had thrown all his resources into an effort for a fiveyear, $8.8 billion program, with authorization to borrow the money from the U.S. Treasury rather than return to Congress each year for appropriations. Last week's conference committee did "authorize" a $7.2 billion foreign aid program for the next five years. return to the Congress each year for the appropriations that would make the authority meaningful. This, as the Administration well knew, meant that foreign...
...town's ecstatic urban renewal director, promptly set about spending the money. McBee has mapped a 75-block area that includes practically all of Wink. In that space, 192 buildings will be torn down, ancient automobiles long rusting on vacant lots will be hauled away, tin shacks thrown up by the vanished oilfield riggers will be demolished. McBee has already bought eleven pieces of property, has options on 92 more. When the land is assembled, it will be sewered, paved, sprinkled with new stores, off-street parking. malls, homes, an industrial park, a $25'000 city hall. Says...
...drove him away, and for the next 20 years he was never to settle in one place for long. He worked in Prague and in France, where he became the devoted friend of Sculptor Aristide Maillol. He escaped to Spain when the Nazis swept into France, only to be thrown into jail for illegal entry. Released without explanation, he got to Cuba and from there to New York. His troubles were far from over. Two or three museums bought sculptures from him; a few major group shows exhibited him; sales were so few that at one point Reder...
...Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy. In his passion for the girl, Ninian abandons his London art gallery, gets himself thrown into prison and eventually flees with his beloved to Spain...
...degree in science education at New York University, Rosenfeld volunteered to take a Stanford-Binet test in front of the class. He wound up with a "genius" I.Q. of 145 (which he hopefully regards as accurate). Later he saw more than one able student with top grades thrown out of honors programs because of low I.Q.. with teachers rationalizing that "he's obviously working beyond his capacity...