Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stronger than the spirit of those people that I see wailing about it," he told the National Food Conference in Washington. Amid the flap, Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee quietly reported a bipartisan conclusion: if further easing of credit and "acceleration" of federal spending fail to end the .recession, then "tax reduction will be in order"-but "such action is not now recommended...
...Francisco. The Teachers Association of San Francisco, oldest and boldest of the city's four teacher organizations, launched a bristling attack upon some other targets. Among them: ¶ Automatic promotion : "The elementary teachers are told that a child must not fail nor be held back because he will be 'unhappy.' But will he be happy when he reaches the upper grades and finds himself still unable to read effectively?" ¶ The dogma that the school is responsible for the "whole" child: "As long as instruction for social living takes precedence over those subjects which are designed...
...Sacred Interests. Bourguiba, whose ill-equipped army of 6,200 men could not conceivably stand up to a serious French attack, was taking a major gamble. "I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go," said he. "If I fail, I will be swept away." Clearly, any successor in such circumstances would be far more hostile to France and the West...
Certain stereotypes are associated with some of the clubs which, like all stereotypes, fail in many individual instances. They are, however, more reliable, on the whole, than the images connected with the respective Harvard houses. Thus, the campus "doers" or activity men are apt to be found in Cap and Gown or Quadrangle, and athletes tend to turn up, according to their inmost natures, either in Tiger Inn, the lair of "the gentlemen jocks," or in Cannon, home of "the sweaty ones." The captain of this year's football team, however, is in Ivy, which always has its pick...
...glimmerings of the awesome dimensions of that step, but at times, the dialogue interferes. One line, at least, should be permanently retired. A minor planet is graced with the unexpected landing of a giant rocketship. The flustered local dignitary goes forward to greet the visitors. For a moment words fail him, and then he blurts out: "You're from Earth-I presume...