Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply impressed by your article. A Frenchman myself, I have the same feelings as you about the killing of these poor innocent victims. But, to be fair, do you think that such horrible things can be easily avoided in a war and especially when planes are involved? During the last war my own town of Nantes was bombed several times by U.S. planes and thousands of women and children killed. And the first bombing occurred on a market day; victims were in the streets waving to these very planes that were on the way to kill them. No military target...
...main reason for the rate hike is a Post Office deficit which is now approaching $1 billion. The various increases will make up this deficit and will also finance a projected pay raise for postal employees. The raises, however, do not constitute a fair adjustment of postal rates...
...program closed with the alumni and an HGC recording singing "Fair Harvard," a sentimentality somewhat clouded by a slowing down of the record and a subsequent destroying of the melody. The guests tried to continue singing, but most people eventually collapsed with laughter, and President Pusey was later heard to remark, "The New Haven radio station was no doubt jamming...
...Whiskers & Fair Play. In the fall of 1876 T.R. went to Harvard. Rarely had a young man and an old university seemed less compatible. T.R., reddish-whiskered and rampaging, was contemptuous, for example, of Harvard's "fair play" political consciousness. Wrote he: "I have not the slightest sympathy with debating contests in which each side is arbitrarily assigned a given proposition and told to maintain it . . . There is no effort to instill sincerity and intensity of conviction." As he moved out of Harvard, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, becoming a college boxer, courting and later marrying a Chestnut Hill belle...
...crew-cut teetotaler who grew up on the outskirts of Sydney, Talbot was a fair swimmer himself by the time he went to teachers college at Wagga Wagga. Now Talbot, who used to double as a grammar-school teacher, teaches swimming exclusively ($12 for ten 15-minute lessons with a beginner, $24 for six months with a competitor). His swimmers are his first concern. Says he, "You've got to really get close to them. You must be an adviser, friend and wailing wall." Coach Talbot goes to the lengths of prescribing intricate diets (e.g., wheat germ, lamb...