Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subversives in public office. A New Deal economist who had become the $20,000 secretary of the International Monetary Fund, Coe had been identified before congressional investigators as a Red agent. The State Department had even refused him a passport. But not until McCarthy spoke did the Truman Administration demand Coe's dismissal from his sensitive post. And not until Coe himself refused to say whether he was a Communist spy, in testimony before the McCarran committee, did the IMF finally force him to resign (TIME...
...beginning "Dear Sir," by the hotel's lawyers. Despite whatever the Danish doctors did, the letter said, the Sahara's owners suspect that Jorgensen is "not now and never can be a woman." If a contract cancellation was not agreeable, "it will be necessary for us to demand medical proof . . . that you are a woman . . ." Snorted Jorgensen: "I have behind me some of the most important and brainy doctors...
...These facts, like all the facts of creation, demand of men and women and children that they meet them. The task is to rid our ears of the racket of ideas and explanations by which we seek vainly and miserably to deafen our selves. It is to listen for encounters with God's facts. This I know...
...potency after two days and is not much good after seven days. Under the new system, the output of a desirable bull can be stockpiled in the frozen state and be ready for use at any time in any part of the world. None need be wasted because the demand does not match the supply. This is especially important in the case of beef cattle, whose breeding should be timed so that the calves will be born in spring...
...confidence in his choice and all our pleasure that he is assuming such an important post, we are saddened and worried to see him go. We are not really worrying about Harvard itself--he has put it in a better condition than even its most exacting critics can demand. But we are worried about education, in which Conant has long been the recognized leader. Conant reached greatness by refusing to dictate policy, by avoiding the panacea, the rule of thumb and the easy answer. He reached it by . . . demanding honest and unfettered seeking after truth. He was not only...