Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulder-shruggers had a point. The Explorer was a predictable accomplishment-and by no means the last one the U.S. would demand. "We are competing only in spirit with Sputnik so far," said Explorer's Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun, "not in hardware...
...exchanges. "My dear fellow," he assured a visitor, "there is great power in Buddhist thought. Our impact is much greater than our size would suggest." As proof, Banda cites the fact that the Buddhist scholar he sent to Moscow as Ceylon's first ambassador "is very much in demand at Moscow and other universities for lectures." The ambassador has just returned to reveal to his countrymen that crime no longer exists in the Soviet Union...
...short-lived as many people hope. Said Professor Jewell J. Rasmussen of the University of Utah, summing up the group's sentiment: "The possibility of a recession of the more serious type appears to be much greater now than in 1949 or 1953-54," because pent-up demand has been filled. But there was no such agreement among businessmen themselves. The steel industry, in fact, is cautiously optimistic, feels that it has reached the bottom. Said Arthur B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel: "Sizing up all the factors, I've felt better about things in the last week...
...being forced down the throats of the buying public. They are too big, too fast, too powerful. They are rapidly making obsolete our highways and endangering life and limb, and are enormously wasteful of raw materials" that should be saved for national security. "Unless American manufacturers meet the public demand for smaller, cheaper cars, European imports will take over a steadily increasing share of the domestic market, with serious effects upon employment in American automobile plants...
...complaints from people who believe these things are disadvantages? Do you think the modern car is too big?" "No, I don't," Curtice replied, added that he is just providing the public what the public wants. "Cars have attained their present dimensions as the result of popular demand...