Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only those concerning whose guilt there could be no doubt were being executed now; that an extraordinary situation like a revolution demanded extraordinary measures like military tribunals, that Cuba had nothing to hide and that every trial would continue to be made public, that the world might sit in judgment...
...strong sense, Mills is Rayburn's right hand. As chairman of Ways & Means, Mills is responsible not only for tax writing, but for the program that Rayburn himself deems important above all others: reciprocal trade. This requires the most sensitive sort of judgment. Last year, for instance. Mills knew that a majority of his committee was willing to vote for reciprocal trade, then about to expire, as a permanent program. But he also knew that the House as a whole would not go that far and that if he tried for too much he might get nothing...
...members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have to be selective and exercise our own judgment on what should go to the floor. I subscribe to the latter...
Based on the poem by Cardinal Newman, Gerontius is a mystical, minutely detailed vision of man's death and of his soul's fearful but triumphant journey toward judgment. Roman Catholic Elgar first thought of setting the poem to music when he received a copy of it from a priest on his wedding day. But he let ten years elapse, during which he became increasingly aware of the gusts of new music blowing across the Channel from the Continent. When he finally got around to composing Gerontius (for the Birmingham Festival of 1900), he broke away from...
Even for fish, herring are not bright; to them a curtain of air bubbles looks like a stone wall. Taking advantage of this lack of judgment, the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries is trying out an ingenious system of herding schools of herring into fishermen's nets...