Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naval Operations, was polite-but his meaning was clear. Navyman Burke's key words: "misgivings," "apprehensions." The law, said he, could be interpreted at some future date "to mean things that the Secretary and the President did not mean." Could it permit the Secretary to eliminate a specific function of one of the services? "People do that, sir," said Burke pointedly. "People eliminate things." Arleigh Burke's statement was an unmistakable call to the committee for help: "This committee is a proper group to resolve these differences into a sound plan founded in carefully drawn legislation...
...Commander in Chief let loose his cannonball of the week. Said Dwight Eisenhower at his press conference: "I repeat again what the meaning of this whole thing is, a nation's strategy is devised as an entity, as a unified thing. It cannot be ... the function of any separate forces of any kind ... It must be directed under unified control. The amount of supervisory control that is given to the Secretary of Defense ... is that amount which will make it possible for him to carry out a unified strategy effectively . . . and any retreat from that is, to my mind...
...this week, the Houses will be able to function as small New England colleges, fraternity houses, and the other collegiate socal units, instead of intellectual centers. The All-College Spring Weekend will begin on Friday evening and will continue as a three-day, semi-formal party...
Faculty control has a valuable function to serve in scheduling the college and community groups who will want to use the theatre. But under Professor MacLeish's program or under any other system, "aesthetic autonomy" is desirable as long as Harvard students show their present ability to make it work...
...critical." They were unwilling to comment in any way on their achievement. But it was a fortnight after the operation, and the patient was still alive. Moreover, use of the artificial kidney was gradually being eased, and there were hopeful signs that the transplanted kidney was beginning to function...