Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long the University will sit and wait in expectation of a gift large enough to establish a department in a proper style is unknown. At present, however, the building is costing the University nothing, being completely shut down. When it was open, upkeep amounted to $30,000 a year, and this was the main reason for closing...
...when, riding a subway, he spotted Bank Robber Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the nation's most wanted criminal, on an opposite seat. Schuster's tip led police to capture Willie (TIME, March 3). Then, when the cops tried to hog the credit, he hired a lawyer to establish his claim to a rumored reward...
...Fifth," said Acheson, "NATO itself was reorganized and greatly strengthened." NATO wisely decided to establish a permanent headquarters and to increase Eisenhower's powers. Even after Lisbon, however, NATO politically remains a collection of somewhat dented sovereignties, rather than a fused phalanx of political will and action...
...other hand, in a democracy as basic as is the United States, one may wonder what are the achievements of groups which try to establish at first that they are "the" ones who know how to be liberal or how to protect the rights of minorities, yet behave themselves just the other way around. For in the end, their mere attitude implies apparently that all the others "are not so good after all." This feeling, meant too often to hide a pathological inferiority complex, even more often leads to sheer arrogance which is unbearable and nullifies whatever "good-will" might...
...idealists will use these tools for bad. Therefore, we must do our best to forget what we know about Communism. An operational difficulty may arise when no American remembers what Communism was. The doubters will start wondering if Communism was bad or not. Therefore, I think that we should establish a board of three good men who will be allowed to know about Communism, so that in the future they can remind us that it is bad. After burning the books about Communism we should go after Biology because this bad knowledge results in germ warfare. I plan to remove...