Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to teach, the teacher admits with irony, "was forced on me by the very urgent need to eat." For two embittering years after World War II, Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, sometime R.A.F. fighter pilot, searched for a job. He was a well-qualified physicist with degrees from New York University and graduate experience at Cambridge. But he was also a British Guiana-born Negro, and the London engineering firms to which he applied told him politely that there must have been some mistake: no jobs were available. Then Braithwaite heard that London's schools were desperately short of teachers...
Late last year, Nasser appointed a new rector: Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, himself a product of al-Azhar and a top Koranic scholar, who has long preached the need for Islam's religious awakening. In weekly radio talks, he demanded reform, urged that Arab countries give women an education. "It is written that women used to argue with the Prophet," he explains. "God heard those arguments and approved them." Long an antiCommunist, Chaltout last month appealed to his vast radio audience "in the name of the religion of Allah, to give serious thought to the danger which threatens...
Although the wives of heavy drinkers usually complain bitterly about their husbands' behavior, liquor can be the cement that holds the union together. Many a spouse of a souse, the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. William Browne told the A.P.A., has an unconscious need for an alcoholically incompetent mate, because only thus can she be dominant. Curing a husband of alcoholism. Dr. Browne said, may make the wife ill, even drive her to drink...
...Ewing agreed. Simultaneous treatment of husbands and wives at Chapel Hill has brought better results than tackling the husbands alone. But nearly all the wives have shown resistance because of unconscious motives; some have become so ill as to need hospitalization. and others have openly sabotaged the doctors' efforts to dry out their husbands...
Disappearing Buyers. Just when Anderson's need for financing is ballooning, the market for Government bonds is shrinking. For years, while income of Social Security, unemployment compensation and other Government investment accounts was greater than outgo, the Government could count on selling an average of more than $2 billion a year to the funds. In 1958. with outgo greater than income, the funds had to sell $800 million worth of bonds...