Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While we are in an inflation-conscious mood, we might as well decide to be realistic about the current labor-management negotiations in the steel industry. As long as management is free to set its own prices, why should they bother to do anything else than follow the time-honored pattern of putting up a noisy but purely token fight? All they need do is haggle awhile and then give in. It is the public's money that they are bargaining with...
...election triumph as "the liberation of the poor." His party's first act, he said early in the campaign, would be to release the Communist-liners now in custody. He also demanded eventual closing of Britain's huge military base, though this, he made clear, must follow a merger with the neighboring independent Federation of Malaya, and would take perhaps "five, ten, 15 or 20 years." When the British-owned Straits Times threatened to move across Singapore's causeway to Malaya to fight P.A.P. better, Lee shouted: "Any newspaper that tries to sour up relations between Malaya...
...ventilators blew in BCG-Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin, a strain of weakened microbes used in vaccination against tuberculosis (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957). Later exposed to virulent TB germs, these animals resisted disease and lived out their normal life span. Those in an untreated comparison group sickened and died. Follow-up tests by Dr. Sol Roy Rosenthal at the University of Illinois showed that BCG, wafted in 10 million times its own volume of air, "took" in 27 of 30 children and young adults, who are now believed to have a high degree of immunity against TB, though it cannot...
...Nouveau is just beginning its vogue. New York's Musum of Modern Art plans an enormous exhibit of the school this summer and similar shows elsewhere will surely follow. Aside from the pleasant but confusing inclusion of Munch and Lautrec, the Busch-Reisinger's well-chosen exhibit gives one a full picture of the Art Nouveau--its frequent failures as well as its undeniable successes...
However, whenever the varsity managed to put two or three of these together, there would follow a poor performance--dispelling any illusions that perhaps it had finally "arrived." And now (with the five Commencement-time contests remaining) the team has left its followers with a vague sense of disappointment, a sense of much talent from which a proper return has not been secured...