Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first official act as president, Meany revived the dormant Labor Unity Committee, and for two years he worked ceaselessly toward a merger. This year at Miami he knew that the time was ripe. Meeting in February with five other top leaders, Meany told them it was then or-as far as he was concerned-never. C.I.O. and A.F.L. negotiators quickly ironed out their differences, signed the agreement to merge...
...deal of respect for both the academician and the scientist. But the activities of the past eighteen months have required him to forego these pursuits. In fact, he said, "as long as I remain the President's chief representative in Germany, my interest in education will have to remain dormant." Asked how long that would be, he replied as long as he was wanted...
...poems, "Sackcloth and Ashes" and "Canossa in April" reveal the individual authors' exultation at various aspects of spring; one praises the dormant appeal of the Radcliffe girl, the other ridicules the idea of wearing clothes in the warm April days. Both are amusing despite some incredible meter...
...Eastern Rugby Union, dormant since 1941, came back to life in New York last weekend with the Ivy League's Big Three and four other teams, Frank Lombardi, president of the Harvard Rugby Club, announced last night...
Some old-fashioned logrolling also helped. Two days before the vote, Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley, long a Seaway project man, got his Foreign Relations Committee to approve a $3,000,000 survey for the long-dormant Passamaquoddy Tidal Power project on the Maine-New Brunswick border. Coincidental result: Maine's Senators Margaret Chase Smith and Frederick Payne backed the St. Lawrence Seaway. Last month Interior Secretary Douglas McKay came out for the billion-dollar Colorado River Storage project. Coincidental result: the support of Colorado's powerful Eugene Millikin, along with other Senators from the five Colorado...