Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official capacity, Milton Eisenhower has been a prime mover on President Eisenhower's three-member Advisory Committee on Government Reorganization. Among its achievements: creation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Information Agency and the Airways Modernization Board. In his trips to South and Central America, he has served as the President's eyes and ears in a critical area. "In the long view," wrote Milton in a 1953 report that has since become the foundation of Latin American policy, "economic cooperation, extended to help the people of Latin America raise...
...spot at a glance: arresting composition, sharp clarity, and most important, an uncanny projection of the yacht's personality. "A yacht photographer must understand the character of a boat-he must see her perform," he explains. "It is my job to do justice to the designer's creation...
...voice from that concord." Thus it was when James Joyce's hero Stephen stood in the school study listening to the voices of boys at play. "That is God,'' said Stephen, "a shout in the street." Nabokov also seems to be asserting that all of creation is God, and that Humbert, listening in vain for the laughter of a child, knew it at the bitter...
...profoundly impressed at the miracle of life. After reading your article, "The Secret of Life," I am even more profoundly amazed that the geneticists can seriously entertain the theory of chance rendezvous of DNA ultimately producing the complex human being. How much more logical it would be to attribute creation to "the handiwork...
...parliamentary anachronism which can delay legislation, but cannot prevent it. The leveling Labor Party wanted to abolish the House of Lords altogether. Finally, early this year, to offset Labor's objections, the Tories pushed through a bill to give the House of Lords new blood by the creation of life peers, both male and female, whose descendants would not be titled. * Their children would be addressed as "The Honorable." As for the husband of any new lady peer, it was decided, he would still be just...