Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designing guided missiles is vastly more difficult than designing "inhabited" aircraft. A new model airplane has a pilot on board to correct its maiden errors, and (if all goes well) to bring it down intact for study and improvement. Guided missiles depend on artificial brains which need to be tested themselves, and they are seldom recovered except as a mass of wreckage. To test a new missile by the cut-and-try method of actual flight is expensive not only in money, but also in more precious time...
There might have to be more restrictions, said the President. It depended, in part, on the U.S. itself. "If prices should rise unduly because of excessive buying or speculation," he said sternly, "I will not hesitate to recommend rationing and price controls." But, above all, what the U.S. had to do from now on would depend largely on what the Soviet Union did. "I shall not attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that...
Distribution of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives (and likewise the electoral votes of each state) depend by law on the census. The new figures meant that industrial New York and Pennsylvania had lost some of their overwhelming political power. With one representative now allotted for roughly every 344,000 citizens, New York stood to lose three of its 45 representatives, Pennsylvania perhaps two of its 33. But California expected to get eight new seats to add to its present...
...People have persistently crowded the newsstands to buy the journals which are against [their political interests] and left the liberal publications to a select, self-righteous audience. . . A newspaper which professes to be a spokesman of The People must display some real capacity for interesting them. . . It cannot depend for survival on. . . those who [already] agree with its editorial policy...
Georges Rouault feels "very tired" at 79. He lives in seclusion outside of Paris, painting his molten, haunting illustrations of the New Testament. Dark though they generally are, Rouault's religious works depend on color to convey his intense emotion. Far more self-critical than most moderns, Rouault two years ago burned 315 old, unfinished works he had come to dislike...