Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawing a thin line to grant "the right to express . . . deep moral conviction" and "the privilege of voicing . . . deepest doubts," but to deny "emotional involvement." The privilege to express and voice is surely an empty one, if the privilege to act is withheld...
...French Assembly does not ratify EDC this summer, Churchill and Eisenhower decided, they will call a conference to renegotiate the Germany Contractual Agreements, which are now tied to EDC in order to grant West Germany full sovereignty-and, presumably, independent rearmament...
...Refusal to grant Secretary Stevens access to its files. 2. Stevens countered by publicly: 1. Casting aspersions on McCarthy's war record...
Another President of the U.S., Ulysses S. Grant, once observed that the game of golf looked like good exercise, but he asked, "What's the little white ball for?" Dwight Eisenhower, Sam Snead and about 4,000,000 other American golfers could have told him. To the casual eye, golf can seem deceptively undramatic. Golfers do not run or jump or kick or pounce or pound or shoot off firearms. Their play seems unhurried, gentlemanly, almost oldfashioned. Yet, in the pursuit of the little white ball, men find an extraordinary challenge to muscle and mind, the test of skill...
...alarmists are right only in that there is much to fear today. But if the academic world were to grant the conclusion that there is little or no hope, the baleful predictions might well come true. When more universities reject self-pity and take instead a forthright stand against each unfounded attack, then education can match, in its own defense, that spirit of progress and initiative which has marked its advance in every other intellectual endeavor...