Word: entailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp contrast, President Conant's formal vestment of authority was, by his own request, quiet and inexpensive. The year 1933 was a black year--depression had its effect in Cambridge as elsewhere. Conant felt an elaborate ceremony at that time would entail needless expense...
...attack by Germany. Dulles could give them this protection by assuring the French of aid in the event of attack. This would hardly slur the Germans, who insist they will never attack anyway. As the Administration has linked America's fate with that of Europe, this French guarantee would entail no major change of policy. By taking this step Dulles could save EDC from months of internal wrangling and place European rearmament one step nearer completion...
...resisted the Committee's pressures. The French and British protests arise from the uncertainty at where the investigation, if extended, would stop. They also come from the fear of continued damage to the United Nations that such an investigation in the hands of the Committee would almost surely entail...
Immediately he began breathing fire: China will industrialize the Soviet way, i.e., by developing heavy industry at the expense of light (consumer) industries, though this will entail higher taxes and greater economy in state industries. Capital for the operation: the people's savings and the workers' sweat. Coinciding with Kao's appointment was a power-ingathering order abolishing six regional government and military administrations (including Kao's own at Mukden, Lin Piao's at Hankow) in favor of centralization. China was set to get its long overdue industrialization the hard way, but so far there...
Jewels & Spices. Like any good housekeeper, she managed to tidy up a number of historical mysteries. For one thing, she unearthed copies of the much-debated Columbus "Entail of Property," in which Ferdinand and Isabella gave their Admiral the right to one tenth of all the spices and jewels he might discover. For another, she also did away with an age-old libel on Columbus' men, whom historians had long assumed to be no more than a gang of ex-convicts. Actually, only four were ever near a jail. "Aside from these four," says Alice Gould proudly, "none...