Word: informing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maine's Thomas Reed, Speaker in 1889-91 and again in 1895-99, used to decide the business of the five-member Rules Committee with his two fellow Republicans without even bothering to meet with the two Democratic members. "Gentlemen," he would say, when it came time to inform the Democrats of the decision, "we have decided to perpetrate the following outrage." When a House rebellion in 1909-11 upset the autocratic rule of Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon, one of the victorious rebels' basic reforms was to deprive the Speaker of his place on the Rules Committee...
...South African government must be brought about from the outside, said Nkosi. "The government has prepared a bill which will make it virtually impossible to write anything but fiction in the newspapers." An uninformed populace cannot effect changes, he declared; it rests with journalists in the outside world to inform the people of South Africa' plight...
...University of Lund's department of surgery, the research team decided to tell 38 of the patients the true nature of their illness. Most accepted the news calmly, or had only small doubts about the wisdom of telling. Only five deplored the doctors' decision to inform them...
...speaking requests a week, is regularly gone from Thursday to Tuesday. Economist-Author John (The Affluent Society) Galbraith gets so many requests that he files them by continent. Schlesinger's schedule is so crowded that he leaves itineraries by the telephone so his children can inform callers, and incidentally themselves. Chemist George B. Kistiakowsky has not even been at Harvard for the past year but in Washington as President Eisenhower's science adviser. Budget Director Bell is now off to Washington-after living part time in Pakistan since 1954 as the country's economic consultant...
Burdened Conscience. The heirs to that tradition face a momentous choice today, as Murray sees it. The modern rationalist and pragmatist experiment, he feels, has failed. That experiment tried to carry on Western liberalism, whose roots are Christian, without Christianity. The individual conscience, lacking religion to inform...