Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last week, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg went under the surgeon's knife for the third time in six months. He had been in hospitals seven times in the past nine weeks, and most of the time he had been in extreme pain, unable to sit up for more than a few hours. Last week, in a four-hour operation, a nonmalignant tumor in and around his spine was removed and with it, friends hoped, the real reason for his failure to recuperate from his operation last fall. But the 66-year...
...time when appropriations are being sought," he said in a recent speech in Washington. "On the other hand, I may be wrong . . .") He also had a talent for the tactless: "We are paying out more than $12 billion . . . to individuals whose contributions, if any, have been made in past years. At the moment, they are getting something for nothing." That was his way of discussing veterans' programs, dividends on G.I. insurance, old-age pensions, unemployment and relief benefits...
...Republicans approved it. They looked forward to the participation of Michigan's Homer Ferguson and Missouri's Forrest Donnell, both members of Judiciary and both tenacious Republican investigators, knowing that they would get their teeth into crime and Democratic politics in Kansas City, and into the past affairs, for instance, of the late Charlie Binaggio...
Last week, while the arms-laden Exilona sailed past them into nearby Naples Bay, 100 Christian Democrats of 15 nations met in the mountainous coastal town of Sorrento, to debate the political defense of Western Europe. Some of the delegates, led by the Italians, hoped to arrive at more definite conclusions than former meetings had achieved. Particularly, they hoped for Christian Democratic agreement on full admission of Western Germany to the political and military efforts of Europe's non-Communist nations...
...Kaynes features a looping twist serve and an accurate, hard-to-handle slice backhand. Like Frey and Gordon, Kaynes needs authority at the net, but the past week has shown improvement in this department...