Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest was based on a legitimate preoccupation with how more than $1 billion a year was going to be spent by an agency that was in some respects a law unto itself. Congressmen were baffled by a science too abstruse for them to comprehend. They were baffled by the need for national security on the one hand, the obvious necessity for un-hobbled scientific inquiry on the other. Beyond everything else, they were baffled by the problem of fitting absolute Government control of atomic power into the framework of the cherished U.S. system of free enterprise...
...Boss. It was-a humble-talking Louis Johnson who moved into Henry Stimson's old office and planted his big feet under a desk once used by Black Jack Pershing. "Golly, we need help," he told his well-wishers. "Please feel free to give me some advice...
There comes a time in every exam period when the need for relaxation is paramount. Perhaps this explains why the old Roman art of pecunia-iacienda came to the Lowell House courtyard last week...
...which flourished last year, and the relative inactivity of the Chamber Orchestra are warnings for the future. There is no longer such an active group of veteran musicians around Harvard, and if the clubs are to maintain the high standards which have been set up to now, they will need a more efficient and more perservering management to encourage other groups to cooperate with them in getting good music heard. There is and will be a market for music around here and talent to create and perform it, but the two must be brought together more enthusiastically...
...Russian network could pick up about the German army's order of battle (strength and disposition of forces). He claims that one colleague, whose cover name was "Lucy," obtained complete Wehrmacht dispositions during the war. If so, and if the Russians credited the information from Switzerland, they need seldom have been surprised. Later, says Foote, Lucy turned out to be an adviser to the Swiss government with perfect high-level sources in Wehrmacht headquarters...