Word: condonement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nuclear test debate was excellent, especially in view of the publicity given to the "Ban the Bomb Boys." For the layman, there appears to be only one choice: Should he put his faith in Edward Teller, the "father of the H-bomb," or in Linus Pauling or Edward Condon, two scientists who have so long leaned toward the left (politically) that they are no longer able to discern what is right (militarily or morally)? I prefer to trust my nuclear future to Dr. Teller...
...Russia to strike the propaganda pose of unilaterally halting its own tests, the British Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell, a likely future Prime Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from tests "many thousands of persons in the world will suffer agonizing death from bone cancer and leukemia." In Lausanne, Switzerland, by contrast, a nine-nation scientific-medical conference on bomb-test hazards announced the finding that fallout radioactivity "has no practical importance compared...
...President Alexander Meiklejohn to Alan Watts, expert on Zen Buddhism. Once a week Russian Specialist William Mandel reports for 15 minutes on what Russians are being told by their newspapers and magazines. No cause is too controversial to get a hearing. Example: KPFA gave air time to Congressman Robert Condon to defend himself against charges of being a security risk. "No point of view is excluded," says one station official, "so long as it is presented with conviction and with respect for the responsibilities of freedom...
...deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A. President Theodore Loos and three other leaders from striking. Last week, knowing full well that 1) he would go to jail, and 2) the state's Condon-Wadlin Law forbids civil service workers from striking, Teddy Loos called his men out anyway. He and his three leaders were promptly locked up for contempt...
...usually offer pianists and trios (piano, bass, drums). Some really are for listening to music, some merely places to be dimly seen while the music is being played. All of them draw an audience of far more recent converts than the more venerable music spots-Nick's, Eddie Condon's, Birdland. Jimmy Ryan...