Word: blanket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question of aviation safety, it found that the U.S. was simply not prepared to handle the traffic jam in its skies. Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat Robert H. Mollohan, then went Lowen one better. Why not telescope the CAA safety project into three years...
Quiet, lanky Henry Heald, a hardheaded defender of academic freedom, has consistently refused to join the furious academic fusillade aimed at congressional investigators; he declared in 1953 that "it is just as inappropriate to issue blanket condemnation of investigating committees as it is for the members of such committees to make irresponsible charges against individuals or institutions." Heald disagrees basically with the stand taken by such educators as the Fund for the Republic's Robert Hutchins, who once declared that he would not necessarily fire a Communist professor unless he were incompetent and indoctrinating his classes...
...Jean Margetts was pinned beneath the car and a log. As Superintendent Lyle Hyatt lifted the log, she gave a low cry. Though chilled by the night air, the body was warm. Jean gave another weak cry and mumbled that she was cold. Hyatt wrapped her in a blanket, rushed her to the hospital. Despite her bruises, emaciation, shock and exposure, doctors said she would live...
...will take place every evening starting tonight (July 2) and lasting until July 14, with the exception of Saturday, July 7. The site is the Hatch Memorial Shell just off Boston's Storrow Drive, and the price, happily enough, is nothing. Just get on the subway and bring a blanket...
...recent statement of principles. The Association urged for academic due process and said that Communist Party membership or invocation of the Fifth Amendment was not sufficient ground for dismissal without an investigation and consideration of any mitigating circumstances and the individual's own record. The press indignantly demanded a blanket rule approach, however, ignoring these more human considerations by saying that the Party is a proven conspiracy and therefore all membership in it is conspiratorial...