Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that he and Virginia had won third prize at bridge ($2) had almost nothing to do with it. As Kansas' first Democratic governor in 20 years, George Docking has been winning most of his contracts from Kansas Republicans since he took office last year. Last week he dealt put a fresh hand that may well keep him in the governor's chair for another term. The slam bid in this case: a budget so carefully conceived and publicized that the Republicans might as well be against motherhood as oppose...
...other defects of the House system admit of remedy. Better food and more privacy are costly, but not unattainable objects. Overcrowding, we are told, is being dealt with by the Eighth House...
...defenses, lean, beribboned Lieut. General James Gavin, 50, boss of the Army's Research and Development section, spoke up with the most telling criticisms and the most imaginative recommendations. Paratrooper Gavin declared that the Army could have put up its own Sputnik before the Russians (but was dealt out of the race), complained of what he felt was the continuing downgrading of the Army's mission in modern war, urged that the U.S. head straight past missile development into the no man's land of space-war thinking; e.g., develop a sophisticated satellite for reconnaissance as well...
Most of Conant's speech dealt with an analysis of Germany's political problems, past and present. Parliamentary government failed in the thirties, he said, because there were too many disputing parties. "A strong middle party," Conant observed, referring to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union, "has arisen to make Germany's political power much different from the thirties...
...triumvirate had other problems. In Sumatra, Borneo and the Celebes, anti-Sukarno army colonels have long been conducting their own barter trade direct with foreign countries. The military commanders have been levying their own taxes, building their own roads and schools for nearly two years. In Singapore the colonels dealt through a foreign trade mission they had appointed themselves, over the head of the central government in Djakarta...