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Word: approach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with labor as well as business support, was a good, if plodding administrator, endeared himself to the faculty of the University of California by standing firm against loyalty oaths for teachers. Hearty, outgoing, hard-working Baptist Warren never before sat on the bench, is rated still short on substantive approach to law, long on sweeping liberal judgments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE NINE JUSTICES | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...subtle and difficult for him. Clark added acidly: "Certainly if I had been [the judge] at the [California] trial, I would have given the [Medina] charge, not because I consider it any more correct, but simply because it had the stamp of approval of this court. Perhaps this approach is too practical. But I am sure the trial judge realizes now that practicality often pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Smith Act | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...turned steely grey with the approach of the monsoon, but in the laced paddies of North Viet Nam's Red River delta last week, the rice still stood thick and unharvested. The Communists' vaunted land-reform program had gone badly wrong. In some areas it had created such chaos that no peasant knew whose land he was to harvest, and whole villages had turned savagely on their Communist mentors and run them out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: Land of the Mourning Widows | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Chief architect of the new approach is tough Lieut. General James M. Gavin, Army Research and Development boss, who before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week flung a basic reverse-twist challenge to Air Force doctrine: "In the missile era, the man who controls the land will control the space above it. The control of land areas [rather than air] will be decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Let the Army . . . | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...ground other airmen, following radioed reports of Flugum's plight, ordered another approach. A T-33 jet trainer went aloft, slowed near to stalling speed as the pilot tried to lift Flugum with his wing so the crewmen aboard the C-123 would have an easier time of it. The trick failed, possibly because by this time the paratrooper was hanging limp and apparently unconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drowned in Air | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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