Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign policy was like the house policy of the gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...
...nurses -work with comparatively crude instruments (complicated medical gadgets invariably break down in the jungle climate). They have modern drugs, but they do not despise the native alexins. Says Schweitzer: "I have not wanted to introduce these simple people to techniques and tools upon which they might learn to depend, and which would be unavailable to them [in] their own communities...
...pastor's growing affection for her, is not easy for his family to bear. This uneasiness lasts throughout the movie. The subsequent events are not embroidery, but deepen the sketch. As an act of charity the pastor had rescued the girl, and when he has come to depend on her presence, it is still charity that he invokes to keep her with him. The pastor, his wife, Amelie, and his son, Jacques, realize all the possibilities of the first uneasiness in the brutal things they eventually say to each other. But the situation does not appear exploited, for each deception...
...dramatic activity at Harvard, and with the new semester now at hand this boom appears ready to become bigger than ever. Within the last year, all the Houses but Dunster have produced plays or operas, and Dunster now has a show in rehearsal. At present some sixteen groups depend on the University to provide most of its actors and audience. For those interested in drama at Harvard, this renaissance is an exciting thing to watch, but it also threatens some cause for alarm...
Four hundred thousand strong, the Army and Air National Guards are the nation's most important reservoir of military manpower. It is the force the nation would depend on for second-line defense in case of an all-out war. Charlie Wilson's statement branding the National Guard as a "draft-dodging business" and the subsequent roar of protest have oversimplified the problem of reorganizing the Guard and intergrating it into the nation's defense system...