Word: depend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atavistic recesses of virtually every Briton's mind is the real, if irrational, sense that the Queen as a person is there, alert and ready with a cool, restraining hand, to protect him from the excesses of his fellow man. It is a delicate arrangement which must depend on an instinctive confidence between the parties involved. It is to foster and nurture that confidence that Elizabeth's husband has dedicated himself...
...scientists with the broadest possible cultural background increases because the line dividing science and other subjects gradually fades. "For example, we are recruiting into the field of the design of translating machines many young people who are grossly ignorant of the facts of language ... So long as we depend for our intellectual development on quickly trained specialists ... we shall have to depend for the thoughtfulness and understanding which make society and democracy possible on those who have barely enough intellectual background to carry on their controlled, supervised routine work, and have nothing left to spare for their duties as citizens...
...some oilmen, mainly the big importers, the growing glut is a result of domestic overproduction during the Suez crisis. They argue for drastic cutbacks in U.S. production. But in many oil states, which depend on oil for more than 10% of their tax revenues, output has already hit rock bottom. In Texas, which supplies 42% of all U.S. oil, October output was limited to twelve days, lowest allowable since 1939. Louisiana wells are producing at history's lowest rate, while Oklahoma is so pressed that it went to court last week with a $500 million suit against Gulf...
...reason for the U.S. defeat in the race toward space is fairly obvious: instead of having the use of big military rockets, U.S. Project Vanguard was forced to depend on the Navy's Viking research rocket, whose thrust is only 27,000 lbs. Even if working perfectly, a Viking is barely strong enough to place a 21½-lb. satellite on its orbit. There is no margin for less-than-perfect performance. The Russians, according to General Blagonravov, used their most powerful rocket to launch the sputnik. Their launching vehicle must have taken off with at least...
...already gone too far to back down now. The result of a clear split between the AFL-CIO and the giant Teamsters bloc would be a labor war injurious both to national business and to the unions themselves. In more clement times, the two unions have had to depend on each other; the AFL-CIO on the Teamsters for transportation, and the Teamsters on the AFL-CIO for contracts. If the two groups split, the result would be chaotic with labor raids and wide-spread strikes. The real victim would then be the national economy. Meany and the leaders...