Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth of its other charges, the Pepper committee has small cause for alarm about epidemics. Said famed Public-Health Authority Haven Emerson, M.D., to the American Medical Association at its annual session last June: "There are only two epidemic diseases against which we have neither warning of a calculable approach nor means for prevention and control. . . . These are influenza and poliomyelitis. Neither of these diseases is necessarily or otherwise than accidentally related, and certainly not causally, to wars...
...three U.S. cruisers and one Australian cruiser were sunk (TIME, Oct. 19). "The Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra . . . were surprised like sitting ducks; none of them had a chance to get off more than a few ineffectual salvos . . . despite the fact that one of our planes [had reported] the approach of the Japanese cruisers the afternoon prior to the night action. . . . They [the U.S. cruisers] had assumed a defensive position, patrolling over a fixed course in narrow waters and awaiting the enemy instead of going out to attack him. . . . Their dispositions enabled the enemy to approach almost within gun range...
...still the ROTC system continues, intensifies, and plans for the indefinite future. The total effect is one of confusion to the individual and an overall diffusion of energy. There is a fundamental friction between the military habit of mind, and the approach to thought and action which a liberal college education aims to develop. The one is obedience and a stifling of the individual for practical expedience; the other is experiment, trial and error growth, necessarily inefficient in the short run. The student who tries to combine the two in an ever more divergent path finds himself in a continual...
Such words from an erstwhile utilities magnate are news of the biggest sort. They stand as evidence of the new attitude toward other men which is slowly but inexorably spreading over the earth. The time when one hemisphere can indulge in an ignorant patronizing approach to the other half of the globe is fast waning. Willkie has felt the upsurge of this new ideal, and has recognized its strength. He is the first independent spokesman of free men, and of men who still must strive for freedom. The Asiatic and the African are stirring, while the myth of "Western Supremacy...
...William Ayers is not bull-necked for nothing. Says he, keeping out of earshot of Editor Bradley: "I'm going to have that all-girl copy desk yet-the swellest hennery in town. Maybe my approach wasn't right...