Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the NSF approach," Leahy said, "the university finds itself trying to play Solomon in cutting individual research. There is a lot of elasticity in the system, but certain people will be hurt. And there is every indication that things won't be much better next year...
...satisfied that Nixon will win with his approach, and this pleases me. Nixon is not a superhuman, but he does think in a logical manner. Then too, a complete turnover usually exposes some of the maggots in the body politic...
Essentially, Nixon is trying to steer between the crass appeals to animosity of Wallace and the orthodox liberal approach of Humphrey. Eschewing concrete proposals, Wallace aims at his listeners' gut feeling that crime must be quashed by any means available. Nixon attempts to sound both alarmed and controlled at the same time, but the element of alarm seems to be winning out. He cites the FBI figures without qualification: "If the present rate of new crime continues, the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the U.S. today will double...
Cantankerous Birds. Like the ancient Romans who staked out Rome's Capitoline Hill with geese that would signal the approach of the invading Gauls, the Americans have recruited geese for early-warning duty on Saigon's bridges, which are choice targets for Communist demolition teams. The idea is that the cantankerous birds will start to honk madly as soon as someone approaches within 25 feet of their cages. To distinguish them from civilian geese-and to keep them from winding up in Vietnamese cooking pots-the birds have had their feathers dyed purple. Originally, the birds were issued...
...pilot project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section to test school decentralization, which would allow "the community"-the parents themselves and the neighborhood leaders-to run the schools. Only that way, supporters of the scheme claim, will ghetto children get sympathetic teachers with a more flexible approach to their special needs. Most professional, unionized teachers deeply distrust the idea. And when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing committee asked for the transfer of 13 teachers that it considered objectionable, 350 other teachers in the area abandoned their classes in sympathy. Thereupon, the committee set out to hire substitutes. Many...