Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian and making scads of money at the expense of Nepal. To protect himself and his elite colleagues, Tenzing set up a Solo Khumbu branch of the Nepal Climbers' Association, a union of Sherpas he heads. In retaliation, the Nepalese Sherpas started a rival union, put a blunt demand before the Nepal government that it outlaw all such foreigners as Tenzing from plying their trade in the country. But the last word would probably come from expedition leaders themselves. Said Australia's Peter Byrne, who has just arrived in Katmandu with eight Darjeeling Sherpas to help him seek...
...demand for justice and for reasons comes to the same unanswering answer. A few days before he died, the greatest of modern poets, William Butler Yeats, wrote to a friend that he had found what, all his life, he had been looking for. But when, in that letter, he went on to spell his answer out in words, it was not an answer made of words: it was an answer made of life: 'When I try to put it all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know...
...than Ford, has had trouble getting enough cars to dealers. Not until January will Chevy production catch up to Ford. Ford's orders are double last year's, dealers are down to a low 21-day inventory, and Ford says it is having a tough time meeting demand. Boasted Ford General Sales Manager Walter J. Cooper: "Ford will outsell any other make in the fourth quarter...
American Motors' President George Romney, who has increased production six times this model year to keep up with the demand for the fast-selling Rambler (TIME, Dec. 8), last week announced another boost. Orders are coming in so fast that Rambler will increase its capacity from 330,000 to 440,000 cars annually. To complete the expansion before the 1960 model year, Romney will spend $10,150,000 on Rambler's facilities at Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., add at least 4,500 to the present payroll of some 18,000. With sales now running at a rate...
...League must fight off competition from within and without when trying to attract the limited number of bright athletes to its institutions. It is a matter of "meeting competition where it exists." Football, basketball, hockey, and track--in roughly that order--demand hustle and initiative by coaches or alumni or both, if they are to survive in an Ivy League college...