Word: forthe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanent new stamp. Name of stamp: the Holloway Plan. At Navy Secretary Jim Forrestal's command, he empaneled a group of Navy officers and civilian education experts, e.g., Illinois Institute of Technology's President Henry T. Heald, Williams College's President James P. Baxter III, brought forth a trailblazing plan to use the nation's colleges not only to produce Navy R.O.T.C. officers but to train regular naval and Marine Corps officers for the Navy's future force in being...
...fact, little but the bare skeleton of his life and literature is known. He resolved to "write perfectly of beautiful happenings," and spewed forth fifteen volumes of a Biography, the endless reincarnation of Dom Manuel down through the centuries. He was unquestionably one of America's greatest writers--shrouded today in the anonymity of vogue...
...when Jordan's King Hussein was desperately struggling to preserve his throne, Radio Cairo kept up a steady and strident barrage: "Death to the traitors who rule Jordan!"-and suggested that Hussein "receive the same fate as his grandfather," who was assassinated. Similar chants have since poured forth against the leaders of Lebanon and Iraq. A recent sampler of Cairo's aggression by radio...
Predictable was the Soviet bloc's denunciation of the U.S. move ("shameful aggression"): the Reds were delighted to change the subject from Hungary. Also predictable was the tiresome volley of "I told you so's" that poured forth from Israel, Britain and France, from those who believed that the West's troubles would be over by now had the Suez invaders been allowed "another 48 hours" in November 1956 to topple Nasser. To allies of the West, such as Turkey and Iran, one undeniable gain of the week's events was the fact that this time...
...Seymour acknowledges that there are some weak programs leading to Ph.D.s (a onetime Brooklyn Dodger bat boy, he got his from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls forth intellectual powers of a higher order than does that involving the M.D. Although the latter is usually a product of exacting requirements, the work leading to it places a premium on memory ... In contrast, the Ph.D. requires the candidate to make a significant contribution to the store of knowledge...