Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, he forecast, "ten years from now there will be far less fear of Communist China's military power than today. A country of 700 million can squeeze a large military establishment out of even a low-level economy, but China cannot conceivably approach the military power of the United States and the Soviet Union...
...peeled off. Whitney did bring back Coach Woodward, but for editor he chose a small-town boy from Mexico, Mo., who was replaced four months later by Newsweek's John Denson. Denson gave the Trib new direction by trying what he seemed to think was a magazine approach...
...only against the toy store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Anneliese Goldberg, whose daughter was among the 63 victims, filed suit, claiming that the accident was caused by a faulty altimeter that had registered a height of 500 feet when the plane was at ground level...
...Erotic Thoughts Dirty? Now 52, Abbé Oraison continues to write prodigiously on sex. A onetime surgeon who was ordained at a comparatively ripe 34, he is a Freudian fundamentalist. Oraison campaigns for a new church morality, believing that the old approach imprisons man in a network of actions either "permitted" or "forbidden" and is psychologically valid only for a child. He holds that man is not the servant of moral codes but vice versa...
...onetime third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, who ate a lot of chile con carne and acted that way, squaring off nose to belt with 6-ft. umpires and peppering his men with insults ("All ballplayers is dumb, but outfielders is the dumbest"), an approach which took him in and out of nine teams as a coach or manager, and somehow gave him two years of glory when he led the Brooklyn Dodgers to pennants in 1952 and 1953; of a heart attack; in Detroit...