Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will never be able to place his students directly in the Defense Department and that the Department will probably never establish an official connection with the program. But this does not discourage him. He wants not an evolution toward emphasis on defense programs throughout the country, but an immediate breakthrough...
...test were positive. Said Mamie to a friend: "That ten days really did something for him." What it had done was pretty clear. Through his vigorous vacation in the Georgia sunshine, Ike had shaken off the worst of the psychological aftereffects of his heart attack. But this psychological breakthrough, though it may have been Ike's main achievement last week, was by no means his only one. In addition, the President...
...drugs under the name Orinase, circularized 200,000 U.S. doctors with a double warning: 1) it is too early to be sure how effective the pills will be; 2) they are not yet available for general prescription. But President E. Gifford Upjohn (an M.D. himself) suggested that "a breakthrough may have occurred." Western Reserve University's Dr. Max Miller hailed the drugs* "the most significant development in diabetes since Banting and Best discovered insulin...
...Pollock-De Kooning breakthrough soon found a following, and a label: abstract expressionism. Like most labels, this one has proved inadequate. It is used loosely to suggest merely the expression of strong feeling without any reference to objective reality. Young idealists in search of an ideal, and middle-aged casuists in search of a cause, alike sprang to the defense of abstract expressionism almost before it began to be attacked. And it was attacked, inevitably, for to believers in the classical concepts of beauty and truth to nature, it was an insult. This gave the advance guard a stimulating sense...
...have-nots," believing that an ever-larger Government was needed to overpower what Harry Truman loved to call "the special interests." Eisenhower's 1956 Economic Report assumes an ever-expanding pie. From that assumption it derives a new meaning of Government's role in the 20th century breakthrough of U.S. capitalism. With no breast-beating the Economic Report accepts Government responsibility for correcting unemployment, raising farm prices, reducing regional "pockets of poverty" and expanding social security. It promises to curb "monopolistic tendencies," and even undertakes to prevent future depressions...