Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher proportion of greatness than of baseness; of all peoples its motives are the least suspect. Its errors have been, and are, many. Its instincts have been, and are, magnificently right. We see the small debits from day to day. Let us look rather at the huge credit through the years. Amidst all the dangers that beset us, we can be thankful that it is to this dynamic, humorous, impatient, impulsive, generous people there has passed the leadership of the world...
...Administration, which boasted repeatedly during the presidential campaign that it had brought economic stability, the new rise was a jolt. The Federal Reserve Board-with its latter-day independence guaranteed by the White House -has tried to put a brake on inflation by "tight money" policies; i.e., by making credit increasingly expensive, it hoped to restrain excessive business investment. But the new cost-of-living rise seemed to defy such measures. Reason: at the root of the rise are the succeeding wage increases won by union members in the past year-increases which have not been compensated for by higher...
...dipped a toe in the political pool by campaign fund raising. In 1950 he helped stage Helen Gahagan Douglas' unsuccessful battle against Dick Nixon for the U.S. Senate. Ziffren was named national committeeman in 1953, immediately set about reorganizing California's clanking party machinery, is given credit for the Democrats' 1956 gains in Congress (two) and the state legislature (two senate seats, five assembly seats) this year...
...Army program, she pointed out, would not operate through formal class-work, although women would be "encouraged to take Military Science courses." She added that the Army's program would be "operated on an individual, not college basis," although "we will, of course, try to get the women academic credit for any ROTC courses they take...
...Parry O'Brien. "You can be either an All-American or an Olympic champion. There are at least 33 Ail-Americans every year. But there is only one Olympic champion-every four years." Parry O'Brien thought it over. "I wanted to be able to take the credit or the blame for what I did myself. I always wanted to be a soloist." So Parry became an Olympic champion...