Word: demands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prosper. Stated bluntly, the issue which is growing up here, as it is in England, is whether a man should be permitted to pay for the education of his son, or must he be compelled in the interest of democracy to take what the state provides . . . The growing radical demand...
England that secondary-school programs must be remade to guarantee 'parity of esteem' for all is . . .a demand to destroy the prestige of excellence in society generally. To deny the esteem and prestige which nature attaches to excellence is no service to democracy...
...nonsense" and asked that Joe be sent to the gas chamber, Mexicans in the audience shivered. "Wait," whispered one, "until he feels a curse!" In the end, the jury rejected both the defense's plea of temporary insanity and self-defense, and the prosecution's demand for the death penalty, found Joe guilty of second-degree murder...
...this week . . . The hearing was, of course, a flagrant and cynical attempt to frighten more timid newspapers ... It did not intimidate Mr. Wechsler . . . But it will undoubtedly warn off other papers who might shrink from a brawl with low-blow Joe . . . We heartily endorse Mr. Wechsler's own demand that the American Society of Newspaper Editors study the transcript of this bullying private hearing...
Since poly's uses mushroomed even faster than its output, supply has never caught up with demand. Used during World War II as insulation for radar and other electronic equipment, poly did not even reach the civilian market until war's end. Until recently, all poly produced in the U.S. was allocated by the Government, and it has been selling on the grey market at twice the regular price...