Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...additional bother of that kind is de minimis,"-smiled the bald-headed chairman of the AEC. The newsreel men doused their floodliehts. Referring only occasionally to some notes, Lilienthal made his statement...
...Secretary W. Stuart Symington, under whose regime the B-36 had been developed (by better power plants, etc.) from a slow but long-range aircraft into the fastest, longest-ranged, high-altitude bomber the air arm has ever owned. Van Zandt implied that there was some kind of skulduggery behind the Air Force's decision to concentrate on the B-36. He also implied that there was a plot afoot by Consolidated to absorb its unsuccessful competitors (for airplane contracts) and that, after that, Symington would resign to become boss of the great combine. Symington ridiculed the charge. Said...
Johnson made his power felt in smaller ways, too. In a kind of gigantic game of musical chairs, he started shifting half of the Pentagon's 25,000 antlike workers into new quarters. He wiped out 57 overlapping and outdated service boards and bureaus. He ordered all armed service celebrations combined into one Armed Forces Day. He ordered the overlapping medical services merged. With an eye to small irritations, he cut down on -the private use of official automobiles. And to end intra-service wrangling in press and radio, he issued a directive "consolidating" the press faculties...
...problems of teaching swarms of Social Relations majors. Next year, however, an expanded research program is planned, and the Clinic is expanding to meet it. The house next door will be annexed, and adjoining it, a small theater will be built for use in a radical new kind of group therapy, the psychodrama, where patients act out their problems in spontaneous playlets...
Holt hastened to point out, however, that nearly every student who came to his Weld Hall office had been offered some kind of job. Half of them, however, vacillated about the opportunities extended them for reasons of salary or hope of a more pleasant job, Holt explained...