Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national calamity. In questioning Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey on Capitol Hill last week, Kerr nagged and niggled for three days without denting Humphrey's basic defense. The Secretary admitted that tight money had pained some borrowers and would-be borrowers. He also admitted that high interest rates had upped the cost of carrying the national debt. But he would not be swerved from his (and the Mills reports') essential point: "It is better to have the cost of interest rising than to have the cost of living going out of sight...
...Russians on suspending nuclear tests, with only some monitory safeguards. Many of his leading advisers-notably Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Dulles-were skeptical. But now the scientific finding was that the U.S.'s and world's best interest-for atoms for peace as well as for war-clearly lay in more nuclear tests rather than fewer. The scientists say, " 'Give us four or five more years to test each step of our development,' " the President reported at last week's news conference, " 'and we will...
...wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, has "indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages." But sex and obscenity, he pointed out, are not synonymous-and there has been plenty of disagreement about when the subject of absorbing interest becomes one of prurient*interest. It was in a first major attempt to settle that issue that the Supreme Court, in a split decision, last week upheld U.S. and California criminal obscenity statutes...
...bath draped in nothing but a large towel. She conducted her charitable works with disarming inefficiency and brilliant success. One convalescent home received from her the gifts of a packet of seeds, a canary, a piano; another, a cow ("animals are first-rate to interest people...
...volunteer's interest in the child is very quickly reflected by the child through his or her interest in the volunteer. Once this relationship is established and the volunteer becomes more familiar with the work, the range of function becomes correspondingly greater. Where at first work on the grounds is encouraged so that the child will not associate his or her volunteer with going away, later the volunteer may take his group or child for walks, on picnics, to the zoo, the movies, or wherever the child wants...