Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliminate the escalator clause in the present law that automatically sends price supports up toward the same old high levels when the surpluses are cut down, thus encouraging more surpluses...
What of this year? Without pinning himself to exact numerical predictions, the President declared that "economic growth can be resumed without extended interruption," and he added a promise: "The policies of Government will be directed toward helping to assure this result." Easier credit would spur both homebuilding and federal-state outlays for schools, roads, etc. Increased federal spending for defense would add further economic...
...crossing the fence from the working press, Hagerty accepted. Says he: "I thought I'd take a fling at it." Confident young Governor Dewey's press relations were atrocious at the time, and Jim Hagerty shared with most of the Albany press a marked coolness toward his new boss. He gradually came to like and respect Dewey, although he never overcame his extreme distaste for wading through manure on the governor's Pawling farm (it is City Boy Hagerty's misfortune to have worked 15 years for cattle raisers...
...First the Indians hooted a few jeers. The Klan ignored them. Then slowly the Lumbees fanned out and moved across the road. A tall Indian youth walked closer, raised his rifle, calmly drew a bead on the light bulb, and baml-out it went. Suddenly the band galloped toward the huddled Klansmen, yelling old war cries, firing into the dark night and at auto tires. Most of the Klansmen dropped their guns and made for their cars in fright. The Indians kept coming (one proudly wore a traditional feathered headdress marked SOUVENIR OF CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.), burst upon the public...
...19th century melodrama that lacks the courage of its afflictions. The lover, when he finally arrives, is not the man Vanessa was waiting for, but his son Anatol, a fatally charming young man who promptly seduces Vanessa's niece Erika. From there on the plot seems to thunder toward a traditional deathbed climax: Vanessa falls in love with Anatol, they announce their engagement, and pregnant Erika rushes out into the bitter, stormy night. Yet death and destruction are sidetracked. Though Erika has a miscarriage, she survives her night in the snow; Anatol and the unsuspecting Vanessa depart...