Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little wee bit toward the Eisenhower side and that ... he's going to win by a nose." ¶Onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President John W. Davis, who declared for Willkie in 1940, joined up with Democrats for Eisenhower because "corruption . . . carelessness, complacency and favoritism in Government circles demand a change...
Anderson's memory crystals are still only partly developed, but he has high hopes for them. They occupy little space and demand little current. They are thus worthy teammates for the tiny germanium transistors (TIME, Feb. 11) which will be the brain cells of the supercomputers of the future...
...Supply & Demand, The worst drawbacks, however, have nothing to do with G.G. itself. They are matters of supply & demand. It takes almost a pint of blood to make an average shot of G.G. (7 cc). To give protection for a single polio season to all the 41 million U.S. children under 15 might take 100 million shots or more, and there simply is not that much gamma globulin available, nor the blood or plasma to extract it from...
...trouble seemed to be television's unblinking eye. Explained a spokesman, Sir Robert Knox: "Those moments of coronation will demand all the Queen's concentration. Under direct television she would be acutely conscious of every movement. She might feel the need to touch her face or mop her brow and would know that every tiny gesture . . . was being relayed everywhere." Even worse: "One could expect that this very sacred ceremony would be watched by people in a bar, for instance...
...week's end, second thoughts were beginning to be voiced. Letters to the editors asked: "Have they no pity for our beloved Queen?" The Evening News inquired: "Need we, in pursuit of a desire to witness every moment of the rite of crowning, make this harsh demand?" And the Daily Express added solemnly: "What short memories people have! Only a few months ago, we mourned a King who wore himself out in our service." British televiewers were resigning themselves to nothing more than long-distance glimpses of the processions and ceremonies of their Queen's coronation...