Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Direct Approach. The men who raised the banner of European unity in the years just after World War II had no such subtle process in mind. Pointing to the gutted cities of the Continent as testimony to the folly of unrestrained nationalism, they demanded political unification. Sparkplugged by France's Jean Monnet, the intense, brilliant economist who heads the Action Committee for a United States of Europe, they planned to construct united Europe through a series of economic, political and military bodies, each of which would possess supranational powers in a limited field...
Fueling Facts. In England, a booklet just issued by the National Coal Board explains how to shovel coal: "Examine the shovel, approach the coal, grasp the shovel, make a forward stroke, raise the load, swing the shovel in the direction in which the coal is to be thrown...
...isolated South African plateau peopled by pious, hardfisted Boer farmers who are as trapped by their environment and culture as any of Author Undset's bedeviled Norwegians. For them, too, "man is distant, but God is near." In The Miller, a baffled man expresses his outrage at the approach of death by browbeating his timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion when a sharecropper runs off with another woman, then humbly comes home when...
...This approach has already been considered by a special committee of the Student Council that is now studying the entire athletic system. Abraham F. Lowenthal '61, chairman of the group, said yesterday that the value of intercollegiate participation in some sports would be weighed against their cost. The idea exists that these might profitably be replaced with less expensive intramural programs...
...have always been based on the idea of "federation," with the "two Germanies" being treated as two equal states effecting a merger. The West, for its part, has insisted on immediate nationwide free elections and has rejected the federation concept. Its new plan, however, steps back from the traditional approach in several respects: elections are no longer immediate, but take place within thirty months; the East Germans will be in the minority on the commission to draw up an electoral law, but they will have a veto power...