Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...likes it that way. In committee meetings, at parties or in the House of Commons, he seems to have the gift of becoming invisible. As the debate in the House grows hotter he slumps down, his feet on the table, his bald head slipping until it is about level with the top of the bench back. he voices grow more strident, but Attlee hardly stirs. He might be asleep. But no, his hand is moving through a strange intricate pattern. He is doodling. Some knitted through France's revolution...
Habaneros felt that their dark, dank, dungeonlike women's jail was no place to send a good-looking girl. There were no individual cells; inmates were mainly crowded into six foul, ground-level wards, as many as 25 to the ward. Each ward had one unshielded toilet in the corner. No one was more dissatisfied with Guanabacoa, or worked harder to get a modern jail, than Director Dr. Carmelina Guanche. In 1945, the government began to build such a prison...
...income taxes since 1946," and short-lived Hollywood corporations de signed to dodge paying big taxes. He wanted to trim corporation income taxes in the bracket between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, proposed a "moderate" tax increase on any profits that jutted beyond the $50,000 level...
...Secretary's office or at conferences with the Secretary." That was distressing news to Commerce's economists, who love their ancient, richly caked pipes. It also set the tone for his administration: cordiality but no intimacy. Charles Sawyer lost no time in getting into affairs on a level above the merely administrative...
...Eliot; produced by Gilbert Miller) is not a complete success as a play. But it is a major event in the theater. Not only is most of it a very remarkable piece of writing, but it is of a different order and it operates at a different level from any new play that Broadway has offered in years...