Word: warrantedly
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...confirmation, Vidal immediately dropped his isolationism. On July 30, 1943, he joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army and later landed in the Transportation Corps. He spent some months as a warrant officer aboard a freighter plying the seas around the Aleutians. Vidal used the empty hours to begin Williwaw, a Hemingwayesque tale of men at sea. By the time he was discharged in 1946, he had finished it and a second novel as well. When Williwaw was published that March, Vidal was heralded as a prodigy of American letters...
David Stein, circulation director of The Real Paper, the Phoenix's main competitor, said yesterday The Real Paper will continue to use hawkers "as long as sales warrant...
Loyalists obviously don't count for too much in Vichy because the plan is rammed down the judiciary's throat. Eventually they have to find judges and prosecutors reactionary enough to preside over this mockery of justice. Charges severe enough to warrant execution must be drummed up on at least six people. It's an obvious sham and everybody realizes it--but no one has the guts to contradict orders from above. Only fascist sympathizers or unscrupulous self-serving careerists are willing to be involved with this travesty, and even some of these feel the weight of their consciences...
...Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns' target range of 5% to 7.5% "is the best you can get. Thus the soundest prescription now is 'Steady as she goes!'* There is enough time to increase tax cuts or the growth in money supply later next year if developments warrant...
...hours the Ricketts and Belknap fought successfully to keep the flames away from the missile housing and the ship's magazine. Chief Warrant Officer William Dockendorff, who led a team of firefighters on the Belknap, found that he had more volunteers than he could use. Tugging hoses, the men advanced on the fires, retreated momentarily when shells went off, then resumed the attack. Says one seaman who watched the battle: "That was either a bunch of brave guys or a bunch of fools...