Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., he said the Harry Dexter White case had been brought up "by the same politician who engineered the ruthless, reckless attack on the ethics of Senator Taft and his followers in the last Republican Convention." Apparently untroubled by taking the side of the Republican element he had often condemned as "the Old Guard," Stevenson went on to define his stand on the exposure of Communists in Government. "Root out, I say. agents .of this satanic worldwide conspiracy, disclose the mistakes and failures of the past, assess the responsibility, let the chips fall where they...
...normal life span to do its deadly work. ¶ If cigarette tar contains a cancer-causing agent, why don't all cigarette smokers get lung cancer? Some do not live long enough to get the cancer; many more would never get it anyhow because of the element of susceptibility, which leaves some individuals liable while the majority escape, as is true of all cancers...
...Better Element...
...Samuel Lubell said in The Future of American Politics, "The same 'better element' in the community who kept the racial lid on during the first primary let it blow in the runoff." The fact that the GOP "better element" has never been too effective in keeping the lid on hardly destroys the parallel; especially when the files of the Justice Department and even certain Canadian documents have been invoked to make the explosion more devastating than ever. No move or series of moves could do more to divert attention from the tasks at hand, to preclude a reasoned approach...
...Only one element of strength is lacking to give the Radcliffe Graduate School the full stature of greatness," Jordan said. "It requires a physical center: there is no focus which is so necessary for the growth of cultivated human beings...