Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every political and economic guide supports a valid confidence that wise effort will be rewarded by an even more plentiful harvest of human benefit than we now enjoy. Our resources are too many, our principles too dynamic, our purposes too worthy, and the issues at stake too immense for us to entertain doubt or fear. But our responsibilities require that we approach this year's business with a sober humility...
...vivid story of his buffeting in that job (see below). Two years later he worked up "the strength" to quit both the party and the paper, and to stop being "a lunkhead," "chump" and "poor, miserable, tragic fool." A completely cooperative witness, Glaser nevertheless protested that "the sole benefit" of his presence at the hearing was "to make a sort of public spectacle of me, because of the dreadful, terrible mistake I made more than 21 years...
...club was born when several freshmen who had played bit parts in the HDC production of Macbeth thought they would benefit by the experience which they could gain in a production of their own, and spoke to John A. Ballard, proctor in Thayer Hall, who agreed to help them get started...
Said Bulganin, summing up: "The outgoing year will go down in history as one of a definite shift in the strained inter national situation . . . This shift is in a large measure due to the efforts of the Soviet Union." For the benefit of Asian listeners, Bulganin called anew for the outlawing of atomic weapons, "including rocket weapons which have been recently developed into weapons of intercontinental power...
...government briefs had argued that the Courts normally give Congressional committees the benefit of the doubt in presuming the "legitimacy of their motives." Aldrich said this could be done when the Committee had clear authority, but not when the Committee clearly lacked...