Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grossly unfair proceedings which did little to insure loyalty while inconveniencing and often terrorizing loyal employees. Furthermore, the terms of the Executive Order were drawn too loosely--the Director of the National Zoo ran a security check on all his curators--and gave administrators only a vague standard of judgment as to who was to be considered a security risk...
...Good judgment in appraising reality, likability and self-knowledge...
...classify a few real Coloreds as natives, but that's a risk we must take if we are to sort out these people" -reminds me forcibly of another "sorting out to take place, which though not characterized by callousness will be nonetheless inexorable. It is the Last Judgment portrayed in Matthew 25: 31-46 as the separation of the sheep from the goats. No capriciousness will govern that apartheid...
...Doing it at low altitude, especially at ground level, is much more risky. The Martin-Baker system has controls that match its performance automatically to the altitude of the jump. It had been tested many times with dummies, but no live man had entrusted his life to its mechanical judgment...
...three representatives who handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand to a hundred." Says Bill with considerable pride: "The entire business is based on lightning judgment. Every punter [bettor] is entitled to outsmart his bookmaker if he can, and good luck to him. There's no limit to what you can win, I tell my customers. We British are born gamblers...