Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to broaden and exploit any Western fissures. Even before the conference got under way, the Russians started the probing by demanding a conference-table seat for the East German puppet government. And while Nikita Khrushchev genially popped over to inspect the U.S. exhibit abuilding for the Moscow fair last week, the West caught an echo of the missile-rattling Khrushchev when he told a group of visiting West German editors that in any nuclear war "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...bothering to run at all. "Not being particularly opposed to the continuation in office, of President Tubman," a church organist had said in his formal platform, "this venture of mine is divinely inspired. It is purely sportsmanlike, and is in response to the ardent desire of Dr. Tubman for fair and friendly competition...
...Shore Room of Bill Harrah's Club at Stateline, Nev. last week had gone into the Sierra foothills with the same single-minded purpose that sent the Forty-Niners up the same steep trail more than a century ago. But there was this difference: the miner stood a fair chance of taking his gold out of the hills; the gamblers stand a better chance of leaving it there. Bill Harrah's glossy casinos-two on the shore of Lake Tahoe, one 56 miles away in Reno-are a rich vein only for their owner. The prospectors who play...
...drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give her a drug to keep her asleep until she died," explained Dr. Millard. Many other M.D.s approved, and Methodist Weatherhead rallied to their cause. But, added Weatherhead, "it is not fair that the community should leave this responsibility to the merciful feelings of one doctor, or that a patient's escape from suffering should depend on one doctor's views." Instead, he recommended legislation so that "a patient suffering agonies of useless pain from an incurable disease could slip...
...impression of each article is generally insufficient to support the hopeful conclusions. Perhaps the malaise which the editors feel is so subjective and individualistic that it is inexpressible. Indeed, the various mood pieces in 323 reflect only personal unhappiness. General conclusions or even general sentiments never emerge. It is fair to ask whether the editors who have covered the Harvard scene so thoroughly found nothing whatsoever which seriously disturbed them, no issues which they thought their experience entitled them to explore. If the answer is negative, then surely they are not good reporters...