Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congress, hopefully standing ready to do what it could, formed a World Federation for Mental Health. Its ambitious aim: to gain for mental hygienists a larger role in determining relations between governments. W.F.M.H. will cooperate with such United Nations groups as WHO and UNESCO. Russia was not represented at London, but will be invited to join...
...instantly ostracized. He did not take it well. Charleston lawyers complained that he grew more vituperative and irascible month by month. But as time wore on, he also grew more liberal in his opinions. His onetime friends did not consider the possibility that an elderly man might gain a new and deeper understanding of justice and the law. They whispered that he was "out to get his revenge...
...weeks the Chief and the Arch-Vicar encourage the most indiscriminate promiscuity so that the state may gain manpower; afterwards, when the helots are put to work, all sexual contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...
...Gain. But the Senate was looking for no intramural brawl. By a vote of 48 to 36 it accepted the McCarthy substitute, voted down the T-E-W bill by voice vote. Next day, while the House hurried the Senate housing bill to the White House, the Senate rejected, 53 to 33, a Democratic amendment including all of the President's anti-inflation requests. Then, with hardly a change, it whipped through the House bill to check inflation by reinstituting consumer credit controls and tightening the cash reserve requirements of Federal Reserve banks (see BUSINESS...
Need for a Talent. If the Israel issue plunges the Arab world into further chaos and thus gives the Russians a chance to gain influence with the Arab mobs, World War III becomes much nearer. Ben-Gurion, for one, has little hope that Israel would survive such a war. "We would be crushed," he says simply...