Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reluctance to deal with the sticky questions posed by bullying and aggression characterized the League of Nations and eventually killed the organization when its impotence and indecision in the face of German, Italian, and Japanese actions became tragically evident. The U.N. began its career with the firm intention of avoiding the League's mistakes, and--with the aid of strong American leadership--responded quickly and effectively to dangerous situations in Korea and the Middle East...
Glen Haughie, Bruce McIntyre, Chuck Reed, Roy Williams, and John Shipman will probably see a good deal of backfield action, as Yovicsin continues his practice of substituting freely...
...twentieth century novel? I think James would be delighted with Faulkner's technical virtuosity, at its best. Lack of professionalism would have bothered him--James was a professional. And he didn't like violence in the novel. There are a few suicides and accidents, but nothing rash. His novels deal with mature people and the problems that arise among mature people...
However much sense they made-and they made a great deal-LeMay's remarks inevitably brought an outraged reaction from the hard-lobbying, politically potent National Guard Association, which sees a threat to the Guard's existence behind every career general's star. The militiamen, holding their national convention in San Antonio last week, cheered Texas Governor Price Daniel's charge that LeMay is an enemy of states' rights-"the typical Federal-minded bureaucrat that thinks the Federal Government has to run everything." The association brushed aside Air Force Secretary James Douglas' conciliatory telegram...
When the New Deal asked Congress to regulate the nation's stock exchanges in 1934, Wall Street and leading industrialists fought the bill with such fervor that Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn called their opposition "the most powerful lobby ever organized against any bill which ever came up in Congress." Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission celebrated its 25th anniversary, the SEC was as accepted in Wall Street as the Stock Exchange, got due credit for helping raise the standards of stock trading and corporate financing to the highest in the world. But there were still complaints. They...