Word: establish
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Under mounting public criticism, the Truman Administration set up the Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security to study the whole loyalty system. In April 1952, the Committee recommended that the government establish one encompassing program based on "suitability" or general fitness for federal employment. Such a criterion would have regularized the security procedure and enabled the government to suspend an employee without undue damage to his personal reputation...
...enlightening article by Murray Kempton reprinted in your Sept. 3 "Judgments & Prophecies" says that Nixon ". . . had on a suit of shoddy which only the most expensive tailor could have cut to fit so badly." He "turned once to wave to Herbert Hoover to establish the true pedigree." (Which proves what? Guilt by association? And if so, guilty of what? Pro-Americanism?) Nixon "always did give the effect of having a great wad of unmelting butter stuffed next to his lower jawbone." Try to get your teeth into those facts! Perhaps it is only coincidence that this attack...
Pulled Its Weight. Marc Rojtman came to the U.S. in 1938 to establish a branch of the family-owned Marshak Diesel Locomotive Co. near Paris. Before he could get started, World War II broke out, and Rojtman became a U.S. citizen, served with Army Intelligence for 30 months. After the Germans destroyed the Marshak works in their retreat, Rojtman decided to go into the tractor business on his own. "All a locomotive is is a tractor," says he, "and I have been in the locomotive business all my life...
...gained a customer) and once thought of selling tubular steel. Instead, in 1928, she married Ernest Simpson, a sometime member of the Coldstream Guards. The Simpsons had a modest but assured London social position, and at Melton Mowbray (in the hunting country, where the Prince of Wales was to establish his talent for falling off horses) Mrs. Simpson fatally met the Prince...
...become possessed of his own witchlike soul." If hag and analyst survive this initial stage, they will eventually come cordially to loathe each other. At this point the patient begins to look "old, hard, spiteful and evil" and uses every instrument in her power short of tears to establish dominion over the analyst. (True to the medieval belief that witches cannot weep, Stein has never seen the loathsome woman shed a tear.) Alternately sadistic and seductive, Dr. Stein's hag patients sometimes invited him to manhandle them, and sometimes circled his chair in "increasingly narrow circles," reminiscent...