Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real danger in following the primary recommendation is that such an action would tend to make a dead end of the Civil Service. To deny highly trained and experienced career men the opportunity to make and defend policy decisions would be foolish. No man will devote his time and money to training for the civil service if he knows that he can never reach a position of real responsibility. To restrict policy-making to political appointees would automatically remove the incentive which motivates capable men and women to spend years working their way up through the lower echelons...
...with whom it was suspected that the Sultan of Morocco was friendly. President Roosevelt, instead of starting negotiations that would have lasted until the death of Perdicarris, sent a cruiser to Morocco and the same day a cable to the Sultan saying: 'I want Perdicarris alive or Rasuli dead. I sent a cruiser to Morocco today.' Perdicarris was released immediately.*The attention of the children will be called to the contrast of the course taken by the great Roosevelt with that of Franklin Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, which has won the contempt and derision of the world...
...Calcutta's filthy, fly-infested streets it is often hard to tell the living from the dead. Thousands of the area's 4,500,000 people, hungry and unemployed, huddle day and night in dank back alleys or sprawl on the sidewalks splotched red with betel spittle. The dead sometimes lie where they are for days before police vans cart them off to the burning ghats. The dying, picked up and carried from hospital to crowded hospital, used to be dumped back on the streets; there was simply no room for a hopeless case...
...last quiver of excitement from the facts-from the time Lindbergh fell asleep in mid-Atlantic, from the fishing boat he hailed ("Which way is Ireland?"), from the landfall at Ireland's Dingle Bay, less than three miles off course after 3,000 miles of flight by dead reckoning. And always there is the thrilling sight of the little plane as it flashes through the air as clean as a sword...
Harpel wrested fourth place from Ken Bantum of NYU, when on his last toss, he threw 54 feet, 10 inches to snap a dead-lock at 52 feet, 11 3/4 inches