Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About Face. Then came the committee's ammunition. First, by letter (at Carl Vinson's invitation) arrived the anti-reorganization opinions of Washington Lawyer H. Struve Hensel, 56, onetime (1944) Navy Department general counsel, onetime (1945-46) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for material procurement, longtime Navy-oriented opponent of military unification. Hensel's point: the new proposals would veer U.S. military organization 180°, from a Joint Chiefs setup geared to planning to an area concerned wholly with command. "The chairman [of the Joint Chiefs would] be the only adequately informed top official; the civilian heads...
...crucial U.S. nuclear-weapons tests at Eniwetok Proving Grounds-tests of such basic defenses as the first nuclear-tipped ground-to-air antiaircraft missile, the first deep-water anti-submarine nuclear depth charge and the low-radioactivity "clean" bomb-the uproar over the tests and their fallout got both more shrill in its public aspects and more sensible in its scientific debate...
...growing Nazi power, then a cloud no bigger than a man's fist. As an earnest, worried Jewish girl, Louise Bell is excellent, though no better than Roger Klein as her suitor. Lilian Aylward plays a warm, tolerant, ignorant old landlady who for all her kindliness is a virulent anti-Semite. She is immense in every sense of the word...
...however, ironic and dangerous, especially at a time when sound national policy requires initiative on the part of the government. The assumption that states are currently capable of sharing equally with the government in any works program is also untenable, since most states are unable to finance their own anti-recession programs...
Price stickiness, excessive and compulsive advertising, administered prices, and other undesireable consequences of oligopoly are problems which certainly should be considered in formulating anti-recession policy. Techniques for combatting economic ills are, of course, imperfect, and there exists no single effective anti-recession weapon. Any sophisticated discussion of economic policy must recognize the need for a variety of approaches, applied with varying degrees of emphasis throughout the spectrum of the economy...