Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insisted on assuming more authority than they had given him. From the first, McLeod told the subcommittee, Corsi refused to stay within the scope of his position, and complained bitterly that he did not have a worthy title. McLeod said that he told Corsi: "Title-schmitle-what do we care about title. If you want a big title, we'll get you one." Nevertheless, Dulles and McLeod waited until Corsi came under attack from Pennsylvania's security-sensitive Democratic Representative Francis Walter before they dropped him, with inept and conflicting accounts of their reasons...
...scores of attendants who wiped away his greasy fingerprints as soon as he moved on to touch the next thing. The clean-up staff was thoroughly decent about the situation, however, and no less friendly than the G.M. lawyers who undoubtedly waited in the wings to take care of sonny if he caught his hand in a Buick door...
...used to inoculate half again as many subjects as originally planned. The foundation has decided to let the manufacturing companies sell this surplus commercially. (The foundation is thus actually buying one-third less vaccine, will use the savings of $3,000,000 to help pay for the care of victims still crippled from last year's and previous years' polio epidemics.) Who Gets It Free? The foundation will distribute the vaccine free to these groups: ¶Children (7,000,000) in the first and second grades. ¶ 210,000 "polio pioneers" of 1954 in eleven states...
...sinful and expect that that will prevent it. Since they're going to do it anyway, we try to give them training and teach them to be honest. If a girl finds she's going to have a baby, we don't ostracize her, we take care of her. Isn't it better to let her have an abortion in a hospital than go to a dirty vet, as she does in other countries...
...museum of the dance." The label was meant to indicate that all styles, old and new, would be on exhibit. Over the years, the lively museum gave U.S. ballet a new turn: it kicked new life into the mummified remains of classical ballet (which it performed with loving care) and pioneered an electric, freshly dramatic modern style. Last week, to wind up its15th anniversary celebration, Ballet Theater gathered its stars and most famous graduates, moved into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House for a three-week run before touring New England, Mexico and South America. Along with some traditional specimens...