Word: allay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Gordon Dean was careful to point out that the U.S. does not yet claim to have an H-bomb. But it was clear that the atom has come a long way since the early days at Alamogordo. To allay U.S. worries about being on the receiving end of weapons several times more powerful than those that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Brigadier General James Cooney, radiation safety adviser to the task force, said: "The immediate radiation hazard from [an] air burst disappears after the first two minutes. Rescue . . . work can begin immediately in any area where there is life...
...that it is really a combination of two feelings: the sense of failure and the dread of just consequences. The doctrine of the Atonement also has two parts: the active obedience of Christ atoning for man's sense of failure and the passive obedience of Christ to allay man's fear of the consequences . . . Rather than frustrating [man] with demands he cannot fulfill, theology offers him a way out ... Through the receptivity of faith, the righteousness of Christ is made available to the individual sinner...
There are many who believe that the possible service revision is no more than a threat to allay further demands by the University Employees' Representative Association. But the proposal has been given serious consideration in House as well as administrative circles. M.I.T.'s system--with paid students cleaning every day and making beds once a week--has received favorable comment at Harvard for the past six months...
Business, said Sawyer, should do things for the benefit of the public-not just talk about them-and allay the "belief, in some cases justified, that every suggestion for improvement in the lives or well-being of our people has met the instant and vigorous opposition of business." It should explain the "relationship of capitalism" to daily life. The American business system "is inseparable from the texture and pattern of our civilization," said he. In selling itself, business must convince the millions of employees that "business is on their side...
George Woodbury, former Harvard anthropologist, yesterday reported "very satisfactory response" to an appeal for donations towards a $20,000 fund for Dr. Hermann N. Sander. The fund is being collected in order to allay the trial expenses of Dr. Sander, who has been charged with "mercy murder...