Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British now believe that guarantees against a too-strong Germany can be built into the Atlantic alliance-by lengthening NATO's life from 25 to 50 years, strengthening its central authority, notably in the Central European sector, where the Germans would be deployed. To limit German strength without galling German pride, the British point to one of EDC's least known but most useful devices: a ban on the manufacture of atomic, bacteriological and jet-propelled weapons in "strategically exposed areas"-i.e., in West Germany...
...paintings are masterpieces which bear out a dictum of the sage Ptahhotep (see hieroglyphics below): "No limit may be set to art ..." The majority, however, for all their historical interest, are either stereotyped or clumsy, and illustrate the second half of Ptahhotep's saying: ". . . Neither is there any craftsman that is fully master of his craft...
...White House correspondents couldn't keep perfect tab on the President's catch because part of the time he was screened by boulders, bushes and trees. Next day the New York Times infuriated Press Secretary Jim Hagerty by saying that Ike had caught more than the legal limit of ten trout. More important than the number of fish was the fact that every time Ike's fly line tightened to a strike his taught nerves loosened a little more...
Before he died, her father also gave her some training in making executive decisions. Last week, at one of the first corporation meetings that she conducted, Mrs. Northen bravely announced an expansion program for her enterprises, said that there is "no limit and no ceiling to the expansion and growth" of the Moody enterprises. But Texans were skeptical. The American National Insurance Co. is regarded by businessmen as a solid, well-organized firm in a position to grow rapidly. Other parts of the Moody empire are not so solid. Many of the Moody hotels have seen better days, need modernization...
...idealism such as that of T. E. and his brothers that old men refer when they look back on the vanished world of their youth. But even they would agree that the Lawrence brothers pushed it to a limit where it became almost inhuman-divorced from instinct and passion, too cold for natural comfort, almost too good to be true. It gave T. E., says Sir Winston Churchill in a superb preface to the Home Letters, "that touch of genius which everyone recognizes and no one can define." but simultaneously it placed its possessor beyond the pale. For, says Churchill...