Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civil-righters, led by New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, decided to try an end run in the debate, based on the idea that the Senate should adopt its rules at the opening of each session-which it has never done. This done, the insurgents could then have a crack at killing the built-in filibuster before the rule could be accepted. But as all Senators knew, such tampering with Senate rules attacks the long-accepted philosophy that the Senate is a continuing body (because it re-elects only one-third of its members at a time...
...Canada's Lester Pearson, Italy's Martino, Norway's Halvard Lange-was less ambitious. While arguing broadly that "there cannot be unity in defense and disunity in foreign policy," its recommendations were hedged carefully with a sense of reality. Its chief recommendation: "Member governments should not adopt firm policies or make major political pronouncements on matters which significantly affect the alliance" without advance consultation with the NATO council...
There are two other policies, adopted at the HDC's first meeting in 1908 which have been kept constant throughout the Club's history. One of these was the decision to have women play women's roles. This caused "distinct opposition at the outset and wavering in the fold," Baker remarked several years later, but the members have always stuck to the original decision. H. V. Kaltenborn '09, a charter member and the first treasurer of the Club, remembered that at the time "I was very happy they decided to be sensible" and adopt this policy. "There was a very...
Abramson urged the councilors to adopt the alternate-side night parking plan, which was discarded by another committee last week. While this system may hurt garage owners, Abramson said, a crackdown would be damaging to service station operators since it may cause "as many as 1500 students to leave their cars at home...
President Eisenhower's declaration does typify the Administration's policy of inertia in foreign affairs, which has prevailed too long. The President's faith in the U.N. is to be applauded, but his failure to adopt a progressive approach toward making it a more effective body is lamentable...