Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more examination was given the act it became clear that obeying it was a physical impossibility. The president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, for example, estimated that it would cost a million dollars simply to label the books in his college library in accordance with...
...Murphy meant them, these sentences are not at all contradictory. The knowledge of Communism to which he refers is the kind held by every homegrown demagogue who can "spot a Red when he sees one" and is quick to pin the label on even some of the ones he can't see. But the more responsible agencies of government long ago recognized the extent to which they must rely on the academic world for a knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's enemies. Symbols of this policy, begun long before World War II, are institutions such...
...great." It is worlds apart from the comfortable tradition that pervades his former Cambridge office. In fact the only fixture that would look quite at home in either place is Conant himself, for he is among other things a Harvardman, and the great versatility that goes with that label will likely stand him in good stead no matter where his political fortunes lead him.WIDE WORLD PHOTOCONANT and West German Chancellor KONRAD ADENAUER (left) drink a toast in wine to the signing of an agreement which restores the postwar treaty of friendship, commerce and consulate rights between Germany and American...
...Washington Ives steered clear of the label, "Mr. Dewey's Senator," and voted and acted strictly according to his own lights. A pioneer Ikeman; he has nevertheless disagreed with the President on some issues (examples: he voted against the St. Lawrence Seaway, which he considered a threat to New York's seaboard interests, and the housing bill, which he called inadequate...
...pact is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty; but how could anyone pronounce SEACDT? "Why not," suggested U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, "call it the Manila Pact?" And when Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay took up the phrase in a speech, this seemed to be the winning label...