Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rigor mortis ... At its best, it is a mystifying and distorting factor in presidential elections which may resolve a popular defeat into an electoral victory. At its worst, it is open to local corruption and manipulation ... To abolish it and substitute direct election of the President ... would seem ... a gain for simplicity and integrity of our governmental processes...
Harris relieved starter Steve Willaby in the fourth inning, with Kirkland ahead, 7 to 5, and the bases loaded. He managed to prevent the Bellboys from scoring in that frame, and went on to gain credit...
...gives each side eighty days more to think up bigger and better arguments against each other. And if the Miners' strike of 1947 is any indication, the government cannot make an injunction stick anyway. What is needed, then, is some agency which, with the ability of a Solomon to gain everybody's confidence, can ensure settlements without any breaks in production. No one has yet been able to think up a more adequate solution than...
...fact, both sides and the middle deserve brickbats. First, U.S. Steel's officers refused to bargain at first. No concessions, they said, strangely reminiscent of George F. Baer arguing with Theodore Roosevelt that management had a God-given duty to ignore the fledgling unions of his day. To gain a majority, the Board's public members could haggle only with their labor colleagues, the result being a one-sided agreement. U.S. Steel offered a compromise later, but it was too late--a catastrophe of mis-timing...
...unit. The excitement is due only to the fact that the freshman who wrote the letter lacked the insight to understand this and went off half-cocked. Judging by his attitude towards the unit and the military in general, it is clear that his only aim is to gain deferment for himself and that he is not worthy of becoming an officer in the Air Force...