Word: deferent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor turnout does not stem from poor publicity. Certain bad features of the Act itself account for the dearth of applicants. Although the volunteers may defer their term of active service temporarily, they must begin it before they are 21 years old. They must also serve 71/2 years in the ready reserve, including 48 weekly two-hour sessions and a two-week training period per year...
...same time, he refused to hear defense arguments on throwing out the entire indictment. Even if he had "serious doubts" about the validity of the government's case, he said, he would defer a ruling until "all the evidence" had been presented...
During his first two seasons, the musicians treated the stocky (178 Ibs., 5 ft. 10½ in.) new conductor as a kind of musical Boy Scout, frequently were noisy in rehearsals and harried him with unimportant questions. But this year they defer to his authority with respectful silence, pass their questions up through the concertmaster. Shaw, at home with the instruments as never before, is using a baton for the first time. "I'm beginning to feel the orchestra in my fingers now," he said last week. "My fingers taste the sound; my ears taste the sound...
...broached by Conference President Dr. Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland, who cited women's "special spiritual and emotional fitness to be rabbis." But after prolonged debate, the Reform group decided not to follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaism, and, said Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh, would be "too great and too needless a break with tradition...
...repealing Sections 452 and 462 of the 1954 tax law, better known as "Humphrey's Bloopers." The two sections, sponsored by Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, had allowed corporations to postpone paying taxes on prepaid income or reserves needed for future expenses until they were actually used, and to defer taxes on income paid in advance for services or rents (TIME, April 4). The Treasury reckoned that the immediate drop in 1955 revenues would run a mere $50 million. Instead, revenue began dropping at the rate of nearly $1 billion a year, as corporations postponed paying taxes on reserves...