Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶After Yale had refused to guarantee him a steady diet of such dishes as sunflower seeds and carrot juice, Australia's Olympic Swimming Champ Murray Rose, 18, a resolute vegetarian, decided to sample higher education elsewhere, perhaps at the University of Southern California. "At U.S.C. they are willing...
Flailing about in the dust and clamor of the great Battle of the Budget last May, the House assaulted the Administration's defense request.with meat axes, lopped off some $2.5 billion. Half that total was made up of mere bookkeeping switches that Dwight Eisenhower was willing to accept, but...
What conditions? Russia's Valerian Zorin wanted to know. The unification of Germany, for example, said Stassen. Next Stassen suggested that each state make up a list of arms that it would be willing to set aside. The lists should be negotiated until each side felt the trade was...
The big trouble is that from the start, Secretary Humphrey's Treasury failed to match the prices other borrowers were willing to pay for money. When the Treasury sold its first longterm, 30-year issue in 1953, it pegged the interest rate at a below-market 3¼% an...
No one comes off really well in this disenchanted novel, but if Gunner Asch occasionally shows contempt for Americans both as administrators and fighting men, it is nothing compared to his virulent shame for his own people, who have, he says, "the biggest words, the loudest cries, the most willing...