Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid bombast and ill-will, all the more venomous now that Republicans have their mandate, one of the nation's finest Secretaries of State left office last week. Brilliant enough to create profound policies, efficient enough to extract the best from his department, and bold enough to trust the experience, intellect, and judgment that went into foreign affairs during his regime, Dean Acheson is now reaping the sort of chaff great statesmen usually do in insecure times. When all has blown away, we suspect that Americans will appreciate fully the services of a man so well suited...
...only sure way to evade this dirty question is to remain silent throughout the whole hearing, through claiming a privilege against self-incrimination regardless of the very damaging effect of such a claim on a person's career." Chafee, Thirty-Five Years with Freedom of Speech 27-28 (1952). (bold-face added...
...global WPA was no solution. Significantly, it is the Europeans themselves, chafing at the necessity for continued handouts and their dependency on every rise & fall of the American economy, who feel strong enough to raise the cry: "Trade, not aid!" In early winter, their cry was answered by a bold program advanced by many U.S. businessmen, notably the members of Detroit's Board of Commerce. The Detroit Board advocated the eventual re moval of all U.S. tariff barriers so that for eigners can compete on equal terms with U.S. manufacturers...
...This bold move in a state that contains areas of high racial tension (e.g., Chicago, Cicero) may win back to the Republican Party many Illinois Negroes, who continued to vote Democratic through the 1952 election. Bibb will be the first Negro to occupy a cabinet post in any state since Reconstruction days in the South...
...speakers agreed that there was need for biologists who set forth theories that come out of biological observations alone and that did not immediately draw upon the standing physico-chemical web of concepts. Historical examples were drawn to show that a "boldness and courage of this sort" had been fruitful in stimulating more research. Eventually the unrelated concepts had fit into a scheme that was made consistent with schemes in other fields, the speakers commented. Genetic theory was given as an example of this sort of bold concept that was not at first built on existing physico-chemical bases...