Word: cast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last year, chiefly because of spending for economic and military aid, the U.S. sent abroad $3.4 billion more than it received for its exports. Faced with a $4 billion gap in fiscal 1960 (ending next June 30), Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson has got the President's permission to cast a hard eye over next year's foreign-aid budget and audit the Pentagon's spending for overseas forces and bases. Last month Anderson gave U.S. policy a new dollar-saving twist: the U.S. announced that, with few exceptions, dollars lent in the future to underdeveloped nations...
...treasure many of these sayings for their restatements of familiar themes (It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows, and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters), as well as for their beauty and ring: Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I guard it until the world is afire...
...Maxwell Anderson's Winterset proved that the living-room screen can be an embarrassing setting for characters who speak stilted blank verse (with Hamlet echoes) and live amid the topical excitement of another decade. Playhouse go (CBS) chose to grapple with second-rate Shaw, and even an excellent cast-Robert Morley, Claire Bloom, Siobhan McKenna-could not cram the rapid-fire sex and social relations of Misalliance into a really meaningful hour and a half...
...area is probably, a Jacqwork of circular meteor craters. The published pictures were taken at almost "full moon" from Lunik's point of view, i.e., with the sun directly "overhead." At such a time, even steep slopes near the center of the moon's disk cast no shadows and are therefore hard to photograph. Other pictures may show many more craters, cracks, valleys and other features...
...addition to Radcliffe girls, Vlasenko, with Miss Kirienko, and engineer Igor Makarov won the friendship of the off-Broadway cast of "An Enemy of the People" which closed its Boston run last Sunday. The cast invited the three Russians and this writer to a party on Saturday night, and from midnight to 3 a.m., the whole party was "Russian" in tone, with Miss Kirienko singing several ballads, and Vlasenko charming the gathering with stories of the Soviet Union, and in interpreting questions to Miss Kirienko...