Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth system prescribes that a student must pass a rope climb, a standing broad jump, a speed-agility obstacle test, and a swim test within a narrowly prescribed time limit, as well as fulfilling certain other minimum standards...
...children's ward, oldtime military acquaintances in their rooms, doctors, nurses and other staff members in the hallways. Far from chafing at the hospital routine, the President turned his two-day stay into a pleasant rest, and while not on his visiting rounds he signed a minimum number of official papers and read his personally inscribed copy of Sir Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples...
...certainly no salvation for the present, said West Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano next day. He and the Adenauer administration are having trouble enough to meet their minimum obligations to NATO in the prevailing apathy. Until the Russian changes prove much more trustworthy, he indicated, it is premature to let wolves into the same pen with the sheep...
...scope of NATO (see FOREIGN NEWS). Questioned on foreign aid at the presidential press conference later in the week, Ike also seemed anxious to keep to broad terms. But he insisted on one point: "The present program has been built up on what we believe to be a minimum basis," and should not be cut. He hoped to see a commission formed that would start from this basis, report by about Jan. 20 its feeling on the big question: "In the years to come, where is U.S. aid going...
...workers who turn out his cars and the stable of drivers who gun them to victory. Ferrari, who admits that "the results of a race are due only 50% to the car," splits prize money 50-50 with his drivers and (unlike most automakers) gives them a guaranteed minimum, win or lose, thus has his pick of the world's best drivers. He picks his pilots with the care he puts into tuning an engine, teams a cool, canny technician such as World Champion Juan Fangio with a hotspur such as Eugenio Castellotti, who won this year...