Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...well aware of the problem, said Perón, and could appreciate the housewives' concern. But he wanted to point out that the housewives themselves were not entirely blameless. On his way to work every morning, he noticed with dismay the amount of garbage piled up on city doorsteps. "Argentines," he said, "throw one and a half million head of cattle into the garbage can every year . . . It is easy to see that the bread and meat thrown away daily in Buenos Aires would easily feed any European city for a week...
...porteños really thought that the new price-control campaign would be any more successful in the long run than its predecessors. Years of cumbersome and inefficient state trade manipulation and Perónista economics had put strains on the old prewar price structure which no amount of makeshift shoring up could relieve. But for the time being this week, Buenos Aires merchants were dutifully keeping their eyes on the new price lists and waiting for the heat to die down...
...lead a sterile social life most of the year has two annual flings, the Spring and Fall Weekends. The "Big Weekends" are time for calculated abandon during which, on a structure of football or crew races, as the season demands, the University student body consumes an immense amount of drink, stages float parades, and throws an endless number of parties...
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Oct. 5--The amount of angry mail that has crossed sports editors' desks in this town since Minnesota dropped a football game to Washington last week is incredible. It makes the angry Marine Corps sound like a bunch of clubwomen discussing a neighbor who undresses with the shades...
After the practice, Coach Lloyd Jordan commented that the Monday scrimmage was necessitated by the considerable amount of work he and his assistants must do with the squad, and that "the only way to learn how to play football is to play football...