Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While the night-meeting fraternal orders languish, the civic-minded lunching clubs, e.g., Kiwanis (membership: 250,000), Rotary (450,000) and Lions (564,000) are booming. Explains one Kansas City Kiwanian: "It's the new release valve. At a Kiwanis lunch, a man can find relief from business thinking for an hour or two during a hectic...
...articulate, strong-willed men, have repeatedly clashed head-on over such issues as 1) the Dixon-Yates contract, which Murray opposed (with Strauss ultimately backing down), 2) Murray's proposal to ban superbomb tests, 3) Murray's contention that the AEC's atomic-power program will languish unless the Government builds commercial-scale power plants to show private industry the way. Yet, for all the differences, tough-minded, liberal Thomas Murray staunchly supported Strauss during the AEC's darkest hour: the commission's vote of no confidence in AEC Consultant Robert Oppenheimer. Murray not only...
...distinguished." The evidence is that its international reputation is of the highest; that it is distinguished by its independence of the behaviorist school of linguistics which dictates the "party" line in other American universities; that it is distinguished by its refusal to divorce linguistics from other subjects, to languish undernourished; that it is distinguished by the lead that it has taken in Mathematical Linguistics...
...week, after the inaugural, NBC began taping Today, Home and Tonight for the West. Both networks have also begun using tape to record complete shows in advance-NBC with Truth or Consequences, and CBS with one or two hours of the Arthur Godfrey Show so that fans will not languish entirely without the real Arthur while he goes on a five-week vacation to Africa. Among its advantages, the tape does away with waiting for "rushes" to see if retakes are necessary: immediate playback ensures prompt correction of errors...
...regretted in releases, editorials, and tributes--all with one common failing. They proceeded from the assumption that Buck was lost forever to future Harvard administrations. In the unerring logic of retrospect, this pessimism was unwarranted: the new President and Dean were understandably anxious lest Buck's proven capabilities languish. And Mr. Buck, being Mr. Buck, could not refuse an opportunity to serve...