Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blundered, the court held, but Kenyatta and his cronies must stand trial again. Up jumped Defense Attorney Pritt to protest that "a new trial . . . would be vexatious and oppressive . . . The government is unfortunately to blame for this appalling waste of time . . . for a trial which did not in fact exist." The defendants, he said, could not afford another trial...
...report proposed abolition of the ineffectual Psychological Strategy Board, which, the committee said, was "founded upon the misconception that 'psychological activities' and 'psychological strategy' somehow exist apart from official policies and actions . . ." To replace the purely advisory PSB, the committee recommended setting up an Operations Coordinating Board which would have the power to insure that all Government agencies conform to cold-war policies laid down by the National Security Council...
...public is conditioned to read into this situation the old conflict of patronage-hungry politicians against the merit system. That conflict does exist, and the Administration would have an easier time with Congress if it had some more jobs to dole...
...building to the forces and mechanics of nature than ever before. The oak tree holds its own against the gale only because its roots are strong enough to resist the pull of the wind, and the fibers of its branches restrain the buffeting with their tautness . . . All living things exist in a state of constant tension; only the inanimate and the dead rest in place by weight alone, rock piled on rock and slab leaning against slab. All truly modern building is alive...
...conscious of traditional rights to be preserved as of new rights to be won; to that extent the Spirit of '76 was profoundly conservative.*The American genius cannot be understood either as progressive or conservative. It lies in the tension between the two, and the tension does not exist mainly in clashing parties or "forces"; it exists mainly inside Americans...