Word: elements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week's U.S. diplomacy. Now Gruenther, with specific White House authority, set about saying it in terms that no Communist geopolitician could misunderstand. "The main purpose and the guiding principle that we always have," he began, "is to deter a war from taking place . . . Probably the outstanding element in the deterrent as of today, the 13th of November, 1956, is the fact that we have air units with an overwhelming capacity which could retaliate very significantly and very destructively in this area." Gruenther turned toward one of his maps and pointed at the Soviet Union...
...countries. On his advice, the foundation backed studies that proved the value of sulfanilamide, first of the modern wonder drugs. Thanks to Dr. Gregg's daring, it financed studies on sex, including the late Alfred C. Kinsey's work. It brought to the fore the long-neglected element of human satisfactions in modern, assembly-line industry. Finally, and perhaps most important, Gregg and the foundation crusaded to have mental illness treated as a medical problem-a revolutionary idea only a quarter-century...
...modern followers of that tradition, Welsh-born Augustus John gives his portraits of the great a romantic dash and bravura air that raises them far above the cliche level of most Royal Academy official portraits. Dublin-born Francis Bacon with his eerie studies has introduced into portraiture the element of overpowering psychological shock that leaves an echo in the mind like a scream in an empty corridor, and has made Bacon one of the best and most individual artists in Britain today...
...Harvard line, the best performing last week's Princeton win. Both passing element this year, was really solid in and shooting were sharper than ever before. The insertion of captain Grey Hodnett at center half has bolstered the midfielders defensively, while adding hustle to the center line...
...week began with a visit to an uncommitted element of U.S. labor, banqueting in the same Sheraton-Park Hotel ballroom where he had appeared at a press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered...