Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staff, who was ready to help fight the President's war despite the fact that the Army is suffering from budget and manpower cuts. "Our setup in the Pentagon," he said, "is defective in that we do not have this permanent command post [at the Joint Chiefs level] ready to conduct military operations at any hour of the day. The Secretary of Defense is a man who has been given great responsibility. I must say you can't discharge a responsibility without great authority. Consequentially, by nature, I am on the side of giving authority...
...announced last week that it would soon begin to make structural modifications on its 1,400 SAC B-47d. Apparent sore spot on the massive (116-ft. wing span, 108-ft. length, 200,000-lb. gross weight) plane is the metal-twisting strain that it endures in the low-level atom-bombing tactic: the aircraft dives, releases its bomb on an upturn, executes a partial loop while the bomb describes an arc on its trip to the target...
...bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
...will to learn-the patient can count on a skilled team of therapists, psychiatrists, vocational counselors, social workers, bracemakers and rehab's own special physicians, the physiatrists. They begin with a precise analysis of how much physical capacity remains, seek out the spine level at which muscles are no longer connected with the brain. Where possible, points of spinal-cord compression have been relieved by neurosurgery; uncontrollable muscle spasms are lessened by various nerve-cutting operations. Once he knows his capacity, the patient is ready to develop it "from...
...shows were expensive. Filmed shows could hope for reruns, allow mistakes to be corrected, could be produced more conveniently in Hollywood, where sets did not have to be struck within minutes to make room for the next show. Most important, originality proved hard to sustain at a high level, week in and week out; for every Marty, Patterns or Twelve Angry Men, there were a score of workaday playlets of no notable distinction...