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...annum, out of which sum he must provide all his expenses including books and the 16 different uniforms required. In the words of Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, Superintendent of the Academy, "This stipend being probably the lowest wage scale in the United States, the Cadet must exercise the utmost frugality to keep a balanced budget...
...Tentative Arrangements." At Yalta, Sherwood reminded his readers, F.D.R. was doing his utmost to enlist Russia's aid in the war against Japan (the atom bomb had not been finally developed). Stalin laid down his terms. In addition to Japanese-mandated southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Stalin wanted title to the Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, use of the Manchurian railways. Otherwise Stalin did not see how he could ever explain to his people why Russia was going to war against Japan...
Husband. This seems to place the responsibility on Frankie. He is, however, the weakest character in the novel. The world that Betty Smith pictures is entirely feminine-a world into which a perception of masculine motives makes its way with the utmost difficulty. The mystery of her husband's life is not why he does not respond to her, but why he ever married her at all. "Don't get me wrong," he tells her. "I don't want to go around sleeping with fellers. I . . . I don't want to sleep with anybody. That...
...terms as Iowa's governor, wavy-haired Robert D. Blue seemed to do his utmost to be unpopular. Aloof and often autocratic, he browbeat his legislature, gave little heed to rising growls from the voters. In Iowa such unpolitic conduct sometimes does not matter. A Republican could always count on enough organization votes in the primary...
...individual freedom, could not go with the right party students and call "Long live freedom" and, with the same breath, "Long live Petr Zenkl." We preferred to give up a part of our individual freedom to save the economic freedom for the whole nation. President Benes, with his utmost self-denial, showed us the way. We realized very well that every opponent of communism had to enlist, willy nilly, into the mercenary ranks of capitalism...