Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attlee Approach. Attlee had other plans. Already dangerously low imports would be further cut-and that meant even less food and fripperies for austerity-greyed Britons. Not only luxury imports, like films and tobacco, would be reduced to save dollars, but raw material purchases as well. That meant a further danger to British production which alone, in the long run, can get Britain the dollars she needs...
...Attlee approach was, in the words of London's Economist, "the planners' last chance." It might end much of Labor's vague mismanagement. But by Attlee's own estimate, it could only carry Britain through the winter to face another, even bigger crisis in 1948. At that time, many observers believed, Britain would have to tap her last gold reserves and thus stand on the brink of national ruin...
...believe in prayer?" One night when Pastor Burkhart was eating alone in a restaurant, he fell into conversation with the waitress and suddenly sprang his day's query on prayer. "Well, big boy," she said, visibly shaken, "I must say that's the most unusual approach I've ever heard...
...similar critique of prevailing styles Miss Lois Salsgate, Middlebury alumna, confessed years of proximity to the University had somewhat inured her to the Crimson approach. "Every Harvard man I've seen," declared Miss Salsgate, "has had a little green bag over his shoulder and the posture to match...
Notorious Negativism. "An avenue which Catholics might travel under the tutelage of the Freudians is the genetic approach. Our traditional psychology is largely philosophical and based upon an analysis of traits common to adults. It has little to say about the distinctive stages through which man passes to maturity. Accordingly, our ethical training is too often ill-adapted to the developing child and adolescent since there are big lacunae in our differential psychology of the child and adolescent...