Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarked recently, like "the boy next door-35 years later," he has turned the Fed, after a ten-year interlude (1941-51) as a puppet of the Treasury, back into an independent and effective custodian of the nation's money. Republican officials sometimes question Democrat Martin's judgment, notably after he boosted the discount rate last spring, at a time when many experts thought that a slump in business was ahead. But no one ever questions his integrity. He is famed in Washington as a man of low pressure and high principle, the boy wonder who has continued...
...civilian engineer on Wake Island, I had a ringside seat from which to observe a demonstration of basic guts by a group of U.S. marines fresh out of boot camp. Sergeant McKeon may have shown poor judgment, but that's not sufficient reason for busting an obviously dedicated man out of the Corps with a bad-conduct discharge...
...myth and misunderstanding that the President is a reluctant candidate pushed into an unwelcome task against his desires and judgment by his political aides who had to pressure him into running...
...explanation: CBS had made no commitment to show the half-hour film, actually showed the last six minutes of it after carrying four brief interviews with politicos, fill-ins by four of its commentators, and a one-minute commercial. The network, said Mickelson mildly, was simply "exercising our news judgment" in what it chose to show...
Newman's personal radioactivity occasionally sizzles through in the 1,100,000 words of his anthology. He professes surprise at finding "independence of judgment and boldness of conception" in the writing of an engineer (Frederick William Lanchester). Later he suggests that mathematicians should examine the beautiful and the good because "philosophers, theologians, writers on esthetics and other experts have been probing these matters for more than 2,000 years without making any notable advance...