Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interruption of the girl's "Dr. and Mrs. Allen have a tremendous amount of savoir faire," by the more important escape of her father's cows from the pasture. Miss Douglas is aware of the effect of the city on the farm girl, making them demand such needless conveniences as inside plumbing and all, but she fails to make plausible the severe temper tantrum of her heroine about such matters. The girl had previously appeared as a "Good morning, Mummy," type. Although Miss Douglas has attempted less than her fellow contributors, she has achieved much more...
...Needless Errors. "It says much for the Queen that she has not been incapacitated for her job by her woefully inadequate training. But will she have the wisdom to give her children an education very different from her own? Will she above all see to it that Prince Charles is equipped with all the knowledge he can absorb without injury to his health, and that he mixes during his formative years with children who will one day be bus drivers, dockers, engineers, etc.-not merely with future landowners...
...Those of us who believe that the monarchy can survive and play an even more beneficent part . . . are not content to remain silent while needless errors go uncorrected...
...timing of Wilson's announcement mildly embarrassed some Senate Armed Services Committee members seeking to restore $1.2 billion House-made 1958 defense budget cuts (President Eisenhower had called the cuts "a needless gamble"); but to have waited until House and Senate had passed the budget would have brought stentorian Capitol Hill cries of "double-dealing." In the crucial weighing of national security v. a balanced budget, last week's economy measure would not be the last. Said one Defense official: "There'll be more stretch-outs, more reductions, more cancellations. It's inevitable...
Canada's powerful Liberals, 168-strong in Parliament v. the 50 seats of their Progressive Conservative challengers, went to elections with smug confidence. Just before the vote last week they canceled an advertising campaign, to save needless expense. But with the first returns, an astonishing trend set in. From half a dozen eastern constituencies that were long firmly Liberal came the flash: "Tories Leading." The Tory surge grew as it moved west. Quickly the last seat of the overwhelming Liberal majority fell, and the Liberals' 22-year rule over Canada came to an end. When final returns were...