Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East ... We Germans have nothing, really nothing, to protect our country. All this will be changed quickly and fundamentally after the ratification of the treaties. We will be secure and included in the greatest defense organization which mankind has created. [We can help] save Europe from threatening ruin and decay...
...House. For, far more important than any one House is the House System, which allows students in the College all the virtues and none of the vices of fraternities. Unless each House can remain representative, socially, intellectually, and athletically, the House System is headed for decay...
...recent weeks, our relations with Asia's most important political democracy have sagged badly. Worried reports from American correspondents, and the recognition of the Communists as one of India's four largest parties have mirrored the decay of what had seemed, for the last year at least, to be a budding partnership...
...London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Westminster Abbey, built in 1245, is "falling into decay." He asked that English-speaking people throughout the world join in a donation drive to raise $2,800,000 to repair and save "this historic edifice which links the past with the present and gives us confidence in the future...
More serious, though, is the President's seeming reluctance to push the clock forward. Many of the most pressing domestic problems, such as our decaying metropolitan housing, and lack of doctors and low-income medical care, were either ignored in his speech, or hustled off to "commissions for further study." Yet previous study, especially that of Mr. Truman's non-partisan commission on the Health Needs of the Nation, has shown that federal action in these field cannot wait. Since these problems find time an ally, stubborn adherence to present programs, without forward-looking improvements, does indeed turn back...