Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said FECB, total holdings of gold and U.S. dollars were $1,508,000,000. Result: some FECB restrictions have been partially relaxed. But there was no likelihood that all foreign-exchange controls would be dropped soon...
...Russia, as in the U.S. and Britain, a hooligan is an unmannerly rough, named in all likelihood for the Irish family Hooligan whose rioting through London's Southwark was immortalized in a music hall song of the period.* Later cartoonist Frederick B. Opper endeared well-meaning, disastrous Happy Hooligan to millions. The U.S. State Department says that in Soviet law hooliganism means "a mild form of disorderliness...
...excuses dragged on, there seemed little likelihood that the trials, begun last November, would be over before August...
Said Kimmel: "No reasonable man in my circumstances would have considered the war warning was intended to suggest ... likelihood of an air attack. ... [There was no] dereliction of duty on my part." But his questioners drew out the fact that the day after the "war warning," he had ordered depth bombing of any suspectedly hostile submarines. Admiral Kimmers temper began showing signs of wear...
...caress. The U.S., said Bowles, had saved $66 billion by not modifying the Price Control Act, as N.A.M. had suggested 18 months ago. N.A.M.'s demand that controls be lifted now, when inflation pressure is at its greatest, "is a risky, reckless, gambling policy which in all likelihood would produce a national disaster...