Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder exactly what Mr. Billy Graham meant by the "high standard of Russian morality" [June 29]. Can the constant watch of Big Brother induce genuine virtue? If Russian people are intrinsically on a higher moral level than the British people, how is it to be explained that Russian troops cruelly misused women in the countries they fought and occupied? Did they leave their "moral purity" at home...
Flanked by his task force of high-priced pressagents and lawyers, Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine made a big headline decision during congressional committee hearings last summer on his dealings with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams (TIME, June 23, 1958 et seq.). He would refuse to tell the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight about cash withdrawals of $104,973 from two of his tangled companies on the ground that the questions were not pertinent. Congress slapped him with a contempt charge...
...what may be history's best view of the business end of an oncoming missile. Explanation of the failure: an inverter did not feed current into the guidance system, and so the bird flew aimlessly. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the University of Colorado's high-altitude observatory, lamented that the failure "probably has set our kind of scientific research back ten years," because the misfire cost scientists a priceless opportunity to study an unusually powerful and unexpected solar flare on the day of the scheduled launching...
...time the British, having lost, darkly muttered threats of trade-war reprisal. But as the Common Market showed every sign of flourishing, with once-reluctant French and West German industrialists delighted by the prospect of a tariff-free market of 168 million people, the stakes became too high for sniping. And the British decided that if they couldn't lick 'em, and wouldn't join 'em, they would try another tack. With the inspired doggedness that characterizes British diplomacy at its best, the British set to work to stave off the prospect of a European economy...
...lack of writers and actors in the tradition of high comedy, he pointed out, is another failing of American theatre today; and he condemned as mere "journalism" the popular practice of the dramatized novel...