Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of his old colleagues what he thought about the state of the U.S. economy. Said Burns at a dinner in Columbia's Men's Faculty Club: "Early this year a scissors movement began to develop in the economy, with the financial and investment sector occupying the upper blade and the industrial sector the lower blade." The scissors, predicted Burns, are unlikely to remain open for long, but "will close through a movement of the industrial blade...
Reports were circulating that Taruc the Guerrilla was dead or had left the Philippines on a Soviet submarine, but when I told Arsenio that I would like to interview his notorious cousin, he said he would help. Arsenio knew that the Philippine army was getting the upper hand in its war against the Huks, and he wanted to warn Luis before it was too late...
...reappear here for a spell). Outfitted with a new set of values, Ravenstreet breaks with Lord Mervil and wins the forgiveness of his erstwhile mistress on her deathbed. Ravenstreet is eager to thank the three "magicians" for everything, but they have vanished into the thin upper air of Author Priestley's somewhat pixilated imagination. A deft master of pace, Priestley keeps his story interesting, long after all its preposterous plot lines have become tangents...
Solidly backed by Yoshida, the bill passed the Lower House by a vote of 256 to 137. But when it came before the Upper House last week, members balked. Instead of fines and jail sentences, they substituted "administrative punishment," i.e., reprimands or dismissals, which are seldom enforced in Japan. It was 75-year-old Premier Yoshida's first rebuff of the present Diet session...
...Upper Hand. He was scarcely a welcome addition. Philippine armymen bluntly recommended that Bandit Taruc be brought to trial (for murder, treason and arson) and quickly sentenced to death. They well remembered Taruc's last"surrender"-in 1948, when he accepted an amnesty, returned to his seat in the Philippine Congress (to which he was elected in the liberation days of 1946), collected his back pay, and skedaddled back to the Luzon hills. This time, snapped General Jesus Vargas, the army's chief of staff, no deal had been made; Magsaysay owed Taruc nothing."We have the upper...