Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great function of the Nürnberg trials was not the often disputed function of pinning the guilt for World War II on a few top Nazis. A decade removed from those victorious and, perhaps, vindictive days, it becomes increasingly clear that the most important function of Nürnberg was the amassing of a vast amount of firsthand evidence on exactly what activated the Third Reich. It was Hitler's idea that the whole Nazi organization would, like millions of its victims, dis, appear into Nacht und Nebel (night and fog) if he failed, and to.this end, just...
...displays of nonbelligerence, trade negotiation and foreign economic aid. The generalized NATO proposal, which Dulles will discuss broadly in Paris this week with the NATO ministers' council (see FOREIGN NEWS), was one instance-and a symbolic one. The U.S. plans no weakening of NATO's essential defense function, but wants to add to defense a solid community of interest growing out of political and economic pursuits...
Lesson in Zigzag. Like many another member of the Eisenhower Cabinet, Benson went into his job with his firm convictions, and then discovered that Washington had something to teach him about the kind of give-and-take that makes government function. In his first major policy statement in 1953, he said that "price supports should provide insurance against disaster" and that "inefficiency should not be subsidized in agriculture." Today, without being so doctrinaire, he says: "I have been confident all the way along that what we are doing is best for farmers. I have no interest other than that...
Each instance of disease-especially in childhood-does a certain amount of damage to the body's overall metabolic efficiency, Dr. Jones theorizes, and succeeding bouts with disease further impair the vigor and organization of body function. The dramatic decline of such diseases as smallpox, tuberculosis and syphilis means less impairment of the body's total functional capacity. From elaborate disease statistics and death rates, Dr. Jones concludes, therefore, that the 45-year-olds of 1956 should be equated with the 40-year-olds...
Vocal opposition also quashed a second half of the main motion-to-abolish, which would have provided for a substitute class function of an unspecified nature...