Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sparkman had already been nominated for a sixth term in the House when Bankhead died, could not have dropped out of the congressional race without allowing a Republican to win it by default. To avoid that disaster, he ran simultaneously for House and Senate and won both elections-the first man in U.S. history...
...necessary . . . even to take disciplinary measures against particular members of the union." Said Bora Laskin, law professor at the University of Toronto who acted as chairman of the arbitration board: "[The ruling] reaffirms the very fundamental principle that if there is a breach of contract, the party in default has got to answer for the breach." And unless the board could assess damages, Laskin added, its ruling would be meaningless...
...their discernment of the divine society revealed in the Scriptures." But modern Protestants, in reacting to a widely suspected Roman Catholic tendency to ally church and state, have gone to the opposite extreme: "The most astounding victory for the Roman Catholic Church in modern America...is...the voluntary default of Protestantism in the last 100 years from its historic sense of a Christian vocation for participation in the world...
...Homeless. The fact is that these "aims" of education are not aims but escapes; "the uneasiness that comes of letting major issues go by default has fallen like mildew on our schools." The real aim of education cannot be "different from the total purpose of life . . . The realm of education may be like a field within a farm: it may cultivate a special crop. But the crop must still serve the purpose of the whole farm...
Captain Eric Sollee placed fifth in the foil to lead the team, winning 24 out of 31 bouts. Harry Ziel fractured his thumb in the saber and had to default half of his bouts, while George McNair, epee man, and Sollee carried...