Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year he had campaigned with the fervor of a thirsty desert wanderer heading for a water hole. He had leapfrogged across the state in a helicopter, had done his best to get siren-tooting motorcycle escorts when campaigning by automobile. Texans had admired his glib, excited, high-pressure approach...
...slave relationship. The one: the white South's insistence upon segregation in the mass . .. [It] is as united as 30 million people can be in its insistence on segregation . . . But [its] evolution is being immeasurably slowed down by the ferocity, the punitive spirit and the lack of balanced approach which Ray Sprigle's articles in great part exemplify . . . How about giving some recognition to the good things that are happening in the South...
Blind Landings. The plane came out of the night, set wheels to concrete. The Army's GCA (ground-controlled approach) had brought another airlift plane safely home...
...Huey's wild, magnetic appeal. At 53 he is a soft, dumpy man with a mushy voice, a flaccid handshake, a venomous temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...
Loud protests greeted the decision. Even scientists thought that AEC put the horse behind the cart. They felt that power plants were not a problem for cloistered academicians, but for engineers. Some industrialists grumbled that if AEC's slow, cautious approach had been tried on the internal combustion engine, physicists would still be riding to work on their bicycles. Monsanto Chemical's Executive Vice President Dr. Charles Thomas has argued: "We can't go out today and build a power plant that is a very good power plant. But to go from A to E you have...