Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military response such as the U.S. dealt out could be performed without allowing for the worst. Knowing that, the President ordered fresh American forces into the Pacific area, and the U.S. shield was poised. The U.S. action was precisely limited, but in a sense, this nation had once more gone to the brink. And for all the fears of those who caution against strong response, it was established once again that in the cold war, strength and resolution are indispensable weapons...
Trouble at Wiz-Away. During academic hours, the Columbia program is strictly nose to grindstone. The first two weeks of the current session, which began on July 12, dealt with "Internal Administration of a Business Enterprise." Says Professor of Management Dr. Charles E. Summer Jr.: "We hit them with everything from a series of talks by executives from Westinghouse, IBM and Du Pont to the administrative problems of a mythical outfit called the Wiz-Away Skate Company. You might say that Wiz-Away was on thin ice, management-wise...
...many people it seemed incredible that a man of Gilligan's experience could not have dealt with the boy without resorting to gunfire.*For two days after that, this notion seeped through the Negro districts of New York City like liquid dynamite. Negroes, long lacerated by the thousand painful shards of ghetto life, by emotions stirred in the civil rights movement, by their hatred for police, whom they regard as both oppressive and corrupt, were only too ready to believe that the Powell death was a case of deliberate murder. And "police brutality" became their battle...
Arrests, dismissals and resignations were becoming a habit; hardly a day went by without some new police swoop. One victim was Abderrahmane Fares, a foe of the regime, who was interim President when Ben Bella first came to power in 1962. Disaffection reached into the Cabinet and was ruthlessly dealt with by Ben Bella. Out went the Minister of Interior, who resigned in protest against a decree ordering regional governors to bypass the ministry and report directly to the President. In Switzerland, Ben Bella moved swiftly against Mohammed Khider, the former revolutionary comrade who had fled into exile with...
...Detroit, Scranton dealt with the complex problem of automation, called it "the first gigantic step toward a fundamental change in the basis for human society." He quoted Aristotle's assertion that "when looms weave by themselves, man's slavery will end," and added: "That day has almost arrived. We right now possess the technological means to conquer poverty and economic slavery for the first time in history. The only question that remains is whether this physical bondage will be replaced by a new slavery of the soul and mind. The underlying philosophy of the Administration boils down basically...