Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reverse the Regime. Last week, watching the spreading decay in Algeria, increasing numbers of Frenchmen were reaching an unhappy conclusion: a policy of negatives will not save Algeria, and the Fourth Republic (which has had 22 Premiers in eleven years) seems incapable of providing anything else. Frenchmen of all shades of the political spectrum talked of the need for a fundamental revision of the regime itself...
...since the end of World War II had the U.S.-French alliance been so troubled as in recent weeks. As France suffered one reverse after another in North Africa, many Frenchmen came to believe that the U.S. was indifferent to the decay of the French empire, and even regarded with complacence the possibility of French eviction from Algeria, a part of metropolitan France since 1848. To counter the rising tide of anti-Americanism in France, a clarification of the U.S. position on North Africa was long overdue. Last week, in a Paris speech approved in advance by President Eisenhower...
...such 'found objects' as cheesecloth, string, mud, sand, scraps of cardboard, fragments of mirrors, broken bottles and tennis shoes . . . Sculpture has given way to constructions where 'found objects' of junk yards are welded together in fantastic arrangements with droolings of solder . . . Work dealing with decay, destruction, fragmentation, explosions and torture are frequent. Apparently it is stylish to make a negative rather than an affirmative statement about life-and easier . . . Chicago is not that sick...
...prove their theory that tooth decay comes more from a soft diet than from starches or sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, said yesterday that a statement by Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia spoke "sadly for the decay of constitutional knowledge...