Word: supplemented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long periods, take the land out of crop production and put it to "such uses as reforestation and conservation." As a "start," Rockefeller urged retirement of some 30 million acres in addition to the 20-odd million acres already in the soil bank's conservation reserve. To supplement the land-use program, Rockefeller proposed a rural "job-opportunity program" to help low-income farmers make the switch to nonfarm jobs...
...this trust by decree, prompting dozens of civil damage suits brought by vicinity papers and advertisers claiming injury. The cost in embarrassment was great, and that was not all. The financial strain caused the Star to postpone an ambition of many years' standing to print its own Sunday supplement, and kept it from a new effort to improve its lagging color program...
...Showing up for his final broadcast last week, Freed waded through crowds of sobbing teenagers, comforted them ("Now don't cry"), accepted a bound scroll from a group of record distributors in thanks for his services. What services? Had he ever taken payola? No, said Freed, but to supplement his regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with two teen-aged girls at once, accepted a subpoena to face the New York County grand jury, declared: Payola "may stink...
...naturalization, jobs and housing. Today Aufbau reflects the change in its times: it features first-rate theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market, chess, stamp collecting and photography. Its famed "search column," which helped refugees trace their families after World War II, has given way to a supplement devoted to aiding Jews in establishing their claims for restitution from the German government...
...American imagination has become the most powerful stream of Western thought and culture," declared London's Times Literary Supplement last week in a weighty (28 articles) survey of U.S. culture. The U.S. architecture is "poetic, structural, febrile." Abstract art now powerfully expresses U.S. imagination-"sometimes grotesque, often naive, but never pale, never passive." Realism, by contrast, seems now "like a political party defeated in a landslide." As for U.S. patrons: "No social group in history has been so willing to spend money on the arts and sciences...