Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were: 1) the Administration no longer intends to hold defense spending below a $38 billion ceiling; 2) the U.S. will be hard put to hold overall spending this year below the budgeted $72 billion; 3) the burgeoning budget for fiscal 1959, due for presentation to Congress next January, will exceed the Administration's earlier $70 billion forecast. The compelling reasons: Sputnik I and Sputnik...
...campaign to encourage winter construction ; fatter pension checks would soon go out to the aged and war veterans; and government cash advances on stored grain would help tide many a prairie farmer through a cold winter. Even so, economists privately gloomed that unemployment this winter would almost surely exceed the postwar high of 401,000, might reach 600,000, or 10% of the labor force...
Three men students exceed the Biblical three score and ten, the oldest being 78. The oldest the weaker sex can claim is 66. One sixteen-year-old boy braved the academic rigors, but five boys and 17 girls are only a year older...
...under the 1953 Korean war peak, mostly reflected an increasingly painful Pentagon budget squeeze, in turn caused by the spiraling costs of missile research and development, of complex new electronic devices, of materials and labor generally. Early this spring, Defense spending flew embarrassingly out of hand, promised to exceed...
...mollify the conservatives, Todd conceded that for those not qualifying under this "special" educational dispensation, the income requirement should be kept at $56 (which excludes all but a handful of top Negro wage earners) and that the enrollment of "special" voters should not be permitted to exceed 20% of the total electoral roll. Faced with Todd's threat to resign if they balked, the legislators surrendered...