Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main Communist platforms is to make the cost of running our government top-heavy. One of these methods is by costly welfare programs...
...entered the speculation this time. Battle Cry. A son of poor parents, Shay Minton was born 58 years ago in the southern Indiana hill country called the "Knob" district, went to work when he was eight years old. He put himself through Indiana and Yale law schools at the top of his classes, settled in New Albany, Ind. to practice law and enter politics. He was licked twice trying to get into the House of Representatives, but he rode into the Senate in the somber days of 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a vote-getting battle...
Newsmen promptly concluded that Crommelin was getting a sly pat on the back from the top command. But Navy Secretary Francis Matthews hit the ceiling. In a matter of hours, he ordered Crommelin shifted to a captain's billet in the air-warfare division...
More aggressively Irish than a swinging shillelagh, Top o' the Morning carries a top-heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...
...talking about nuclear energy today? . . . What got the headlines? Tell me. Was it power? No. Bombs . . . And you [physicists] can storm and shout about atomic energy at the top of your voices - the world just won't hear...