Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named to lower federal courts. ¶Prodded and pushed federal courts toward clearing their swamped dockets, e.g., by recommending younger judges, by urging judges to halve their traditional summer-long vacations. ¶Won more criminal tax convictions than in the previous twelve years (2,272 against 2,260). ¶Built up an outstanding antitrust record, based not on penalizing growth but on protecting the right of all to grow. ¶ Attacked Communists with such legal skill that Communist Party Boss William Z. Foster was moved to say: "The attack by the Government upon the party has been directly responsible...
...Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...
High above India's plains, now sweltering in the 105° heat that comes before the summer monsoon, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was taking his first vacation in three years. Nehru was bone-tired; black circles ringed his eyes. In the cool. British-built hill station of Chakrata, Nehru slept under blankets, went for long walks on the fir-clad slopes, drew loud cheers from local admirers when he rode a pony onto the local parade ground and neatly guided it through a perfect figure eight...
...Belvedere, et al.--repeated and reworked, reasserting themselves after generations or even centuries. The most striking example of this that he gives is a comparison of a nude on a 4th century Greek mirror with a Picasso line drawing. Almost every gesture finds its antecedent and is copied and built upon almost unconsciously...
...principles around which the Society was originally built--those of economic security and "social experience at an intellectual level"--remain substantially intact today...