Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free." It was Lawyer Robb who laid down the major strategic lines: 1) make Goldfine appear as a simple, innocent, underdog type being persecuted by a powerful congressional subcommittee, and 2) permit Goldfine to answer only those questions that related, directly and demonstrably, to his relationships with the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sherman Adams. On paper, the plans looked good - at least to their authors. In practice, they exploded in some wildly improbable directions...
...November 1955, Krim claims, one of Soustelle's Moslem agents got in touch with an F.L.N. officer and proposed to establish a decoy unit within the F.L.N. itself. The French were prepared to provide guns and money for the unit, which would appear to be loyal to the F.L.N. by day, but would actually fight the F.L.N. by night. For nearly a year Krim and some of his subordinates strung the French along, fought ferocious mock battles amongst themselves at night, and to provide casualties, left the imaginary battlefields strewn with what Krim describes as executed "traitors" dressed...
Hungary's Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, whose courageous sermons drew crowds even after he was in deep political disgrace with the Red regime, will no longer appear in Hungarian pulpits...
Oscar's appearance was typical. "I don't appear here in humility," he told his audience. "I made an excusable blunder-considering the circumstances that I was humiliated-of using my power for fractional, justifiable vindictiveness." As for Philco, "I will not tolerate any capricious whim, right or wrong (and I was right as usual), to deter my passionately loyal fans from purchasing this great product...
...crisis in science education, the report observes, "is not an invention of the newspapers, or scientists, or the Pentagon. It is a real crisis." Its cause is not Russia, but a vast acceleration of technology "beside which the industrial revolution may appear a modest alteration of human affairs." The needs: a great many scientists, well and broadly educated, and a general public familiar with the methods and objectives of science...