Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council, said last night with reference to the CEP's action that he was "heartened by this reassurance of the widely acclaimed Harvard liberal tradition, and at the same time, grateful for the opportunity to serve the cause of improved undergraduate education in this modest but significant manner...
...charge "false and divisive nonsense" (which is not exactly Kefauver talk). "I have come to California," he said, "to express my indignation of things said of my friends. I never thought I would see the day when Democrats would denounce each other in such an unfair and unfounded manner...
...hardly "noble, eloquent, and dissatisfied" as he remembers the Roman orator whom he wishes to emulate. Unfortunately his own way of subduing unleashed ambition is uncertain, and while his eloquence nevers falters, his nobility wavers too much for him to be a spy in the grand manner. The spy, he observes, "must have disgust for poverty, and faith in the future of money." Though continually dedicated to becoming affluent, he sometimes seems unsure of how to do it. This ambiguity makes him dubious as a character who claims to be the greatest spy in history, and Mason's submission...
...days, confronted by the most crucial economic and political issue to come before it in 1956, the U.S. Senate squabbled and made all manner of political noises. One Senator after another rose during the debate to say that the farm bill must provide a really sense-making solution to the problems of the nation's agricultural economy. One dreary night last week the Senate finally passed its bill. It was no more than a tangled crop of political weeds...
...Greater flexibility to meet regional economic competition from the Communist bloc. In the current aid program, the President can spend $250 million a year in the place and manner he wishes, with few congressional restrictions. For the future, the Administration wants this authority expanded to $500 million a year. One proposed item in this fund: $100 million of nonmilitary aid for the troubled Middle East and Africa, so that the U.S. will "be in a position to act promptly to help governments in this area in their efforts to find solutions for economic and social problems...