Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas, where most folks try hard not to forget the region's colorful, gun-smoking past, anybody may own a pistol without a license (but it is illegal to tote it). All that the most conscientious pawnbroker will demand of a prospective gun-buyer is a "certificate of good character." But the fact is, as Houston Post Reporter John Davis once wrote sardonically: "All you need...
...strengths of Communism are bound up in its iron grip upon nearly 1 billion people, enabling Communism to squeeze the great bulk of its resources into armaments and political-economic offensives. But the weaknesses of Communism are also bound up in that iron grip, above all in the restless demand of subject peoples for freedom of thought and freedom to buy more consumer goods. This is why the U.S. has been trying to base its cold war policies upon 1) "everpresent and ever-alert retaliatory power to deter Soviet aggression," 2) political-economic aid and beefed-up world trade...
...Salaries. A professional college administrator from Huntsville, Texas, Wilson has done his best for his big (17,000 students) main campus and its various branches scattered throughout the state. He flatly opposed admitting "students who have no chance of doing the quality of work which the university must demand"; last fall he made his university the first state-supported school in Texas to require entrance examinations...
...mile on flights inside Russia, v. the 8.6? charged by Western carriers for trips within Europe and only 5.3? for domestic U.S. flights. Passengers have trouble buying tickets in advance, since flights are often reported fully booked because clerks hold out large blocks to satisfy any last-minute demand by Soviet VIPs. A foreigner can usually wangle a seat at the last moment, even if a nontitled Soviet citizen must be bumped just before takeoff. In flight, meals are heavy and ordinary, include Georgian wines, vodka and cognac. The piston planes are un-pressurized, and many...
...intention to halt nuclear tests in a letter to President Eisenhower and United Nations officials. Lawrence Scott, leader of the Nevada protest, said the committee is working on plans to send a delegation to the Soviet Union. "We desire to bring to the Russian people the same moral demand to stop preparation for nuclear war," he said...