Word: fored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Democratic attempt to create a continuing idea and strategy group for the defeated party is a plan which has been tried unsuccessfully be- fore. The appointment of Stevenson might tend to give more weight to the recommendations of the committee to Congressional leader. Southern conservative leadership, however, which holds nine of sixteen Senate committee chairmanships cannot be expected to give in quickly to any demands to reverse its tactics of agreeing and working with President Eisenhower...
...dozens of foreign countries. On his advice, the foundation backed studies that proved the value of sulfanilamide, first of the modern wonder drugs. Thanks to Dr. Gregg's daring, it financed studies on sex, including the late Alfred C. Kinsey's work. It brought to the fore the long-neglected element of human satisfactions in modern, assembly-line industry. Finally, and perhaps most important, Gregg and the foundation crusaded to have mental illness treated as a medical problem-a revolutionary idea only a quarter-century...
This year brought my first opportunity to vote in a national election. I eagerly read up on both parties, but how can a person possibly find the truth among the mud-slinging and heated accusations on both sides? There fore I'm not going to vote...
With the passing of Quincy, the presidency fell into a rut, from which it was only rescued when the genius of Eliot transformed a respectable university into a great one. But in this period, which Morison calls the Age of Transition, there were many fore-shadowings of later Eliot reforms...
...about 90 minutes the captain tried to make his case. But George Meany raked him fore and aft with embarrassing questions. How had he cleaned up the union? Bradley's reply: he had installed new bookkeeping systems. What had he done about the 39 members cited in 1953 for investigation by I.L.A.'s own special investigating committee? Nothing. Insisted the captain: "I don't know of any persons with criminal records" in the I.L.A...