Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depleted. Under his direction 27 million trees have been planted to replenish the state's dwindling forests. His position on civil rights might give pause to his Southern supporters in the showdown. During the Democrats' two-year heyday in Columbus, Lausche nearly won passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act with enforcement features. Said Lausche in his 1955 message to the legislature : "The decision of the United States Supreme Court requiring the schools of our country to provide equality of teaching services for our children . . . meets with my complete approval . . . We simply cannot live as a free people...
...West's newest ally, West Germany, was making a most disagreeable impression on its friends last week. Chiefly responsible was crabbed, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer. Schäffer was flatly unwilling to pay what Germany's NATO partners consider a fair share of Western defense...
...good enough to win right from the start), then 59 ft. 4½ in. After a momentary lapse with 58 ft. 8¼ in., everything clicked: O'Brien put the shot 59 ft. 9 in., setting a new world's indoor record and giving fair warning of what to expect next fall in Australia...
Aside from the scattered clouds over Detroit, the U.S. economic climate continued fair and warm. The steel industry clipped along at 99.1% of rated capacity in January, turned out 10.8 million net tons of steel for an alltime record. Incoming orders still outpaced production, were backed up more than three months at some mills. As businessmen continued to expand, business loans increased $44 million to a total of $25.6 billion in the week ending...
...book is fair enough at spelling out the problem. The French were indeed too intractable, too addicted to colonialism. The Communists were indeed calling the turns, and U.S. help was probably too little and too late. Above all, there is the real problem of how to convince the world that America stands for freedom. But it is frightening to think of this mission in the hands of men like Author Shaplen's hero. For Adam Patch is just a fugitive from the WPA era transplanted to Indo-China; any halfway smart Communist agent could sell him the Hanoi bridge...