Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aimless and frustrating year for the Senator. The Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, the National Labor Relations Board, the United States guided missile program, the Administration's farm policy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Milton Eisenhower and a cherished McCarthy enemy, Harold Stassen, all came in for their share of criticism, but somehow the public and the press failed to sit up and take notice as they had done only a few months before. With his committee chairmanship gone in the Democratic victory in 1954 McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations...
...takes some time, however, before the evening with Saroyan reaches its high point. The first play, a short sketch called The Beautiful People, is in many ways the least satisfactory of the three. Part of the fault is the author's--the scene is merely an aimless dialogue between a fifteen-year-old boy and an elderly woman who, for some unexplained reason, comes to the boy's house to see his father. The two discuss a wide and wild range of subjects, from mice than can spell to the boy's one-word novel, Tree. Saroyan here probably tried...
...Bulganin and waggled a light straw hat. Behind him came Nikita Khrushchev and waggled a light straw hat. A wave of onlookers broke over steel barricades and had to be beaten back by police swinging steel-tipped staves. Garlands formed nooses about the necks of the visitors, and an aimless cheer resolved itself into an intelligible chant, "Nehru! Bulganin! Khrushchev!" The celebrities chatted. Nehru had heard that Bulganin wears a bulletproof vest in public appearances. "I do not," said Bulganin. "Feel me." Nehru good-naturedly poked an inquiring finger at the Russian's chest. Then Bulganin turned...
...itself from the issue. Harvard could still actively contribute to the solution of the national problem merely by advising the nation's educators in their planning efforts and by training teachers. Whether or not Harvard must ultimately choose such a role, the Administration in the meantime should stop the aimless drift toward expansion. It must face the dilemma squarely and calculate the price it may be forced...
Case No. 190 was a Negro woman, employed by the Agriculture Department as a tabulator machine operator. She was questioned about her relationship with a suspected Communist, whom she said she had met only two or three times. This aimless exchange ensued...