Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress wanted to construct a sensible, just law out of the jumble of loopholes and restrictions that make up the United States' present immigration policy, it picked the wrong man to do it. Pat McCarran and his staff have labored mightily to produce three hundred and one pages of immigration law, but their magnum opus only worsens the present inequities by codifying them. The Senator from Nevada, the symbol of American immigration policy, is an unfriendly host indeed...
...memorandums, diaries and written reveries. To the written material, he has added interviews of Truman by Hillman. All this is tossed together in a jumble from which the patient reader can piece together a better picture of Truman, the man and the President, than historians have been able to construct from the records of more complex and less candid Presidents...
Government work of Mark I included an assignment for the Air Force when it was planning to construct a model of a jet engine with a takeoff unit incorporated in it. Mark I proved this development impractical and the Air Force cancelled their order for the model. According to Aiken, the money that Mark I saved the taxpayers would be sufficient to run the computer for two and one-half years...
...architect obviously wanted to construct a room for exhibitions, a purpose requiring a well-lit stage and just enough foot-candles scattered around the remaining area to permit a little note-taking. This is all very well for a fine arts course...
...unintelligible mutter. Charles Malik, Lebanon's great delegate to the U.N., put it tersely: "Do you know why there are problems in the Near East? Because the West is not sure of itself." The East would be in turmoil until the West achieved enough moral clarity to construct a just and fruitful policy toward the East...