Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind a desk littered with carbon copies of the week-end's dictation, Dean Bender's secretary answered calls. "Yes," she said, "I sympathize with you, but . . ." Then she asked the parent to call back in a day, when one of the admissions men would be glad to speak with her. Yesterday, however, after two months of overtime work, the committee took its first...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper: "Dan is full of guile. He is a professional glad-hander and greeter...
Mark Clark learned what negotiators with the Communists have always learned: that the only argument they respect is force. He rattles no sabres but neither does he harbor any illusions. Like all decent men, he was glad that "the armistice had ended the killing. But when I signed the armistice, I knew, of course, that it was not over-that the struggle against Communism would not be over in my lifetime. The Korean war was a skirmish, a bloody, costly skirmish, fought on the perimeter of the free world...
...chairman of the new department, lasted fourteen years. Professor Sorokin was only too glad to end what he calls his "Roosevelt term" and devote his time to a project he had long considered. A witness to the revolutions in Russia and two world wars, he had lived with violence and always opposed it. In his mind, the one hope for civilization was the development of man's creative over his destructive impulses. To study the problem, he has established the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism...
Cabot refers to these latter gifts as "soft money," and while he is glad to have them, he points out that in these times, such donations are here today and gone almost before tomorrow. This is inevitable when investments provide proportionately only half the income they did in 1920 despite increases in both principle and rate of return...