Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spot of Color. "You have betrayed the hospitality and protection given to you [by Britain] with the grossest treachery . . ." said Lord Goddard, hard-voiced, "your object being to strengthen that creed which then was known to be inimical to all freedom-loving countries . . . You have imperiled the right of asylum which this country has hitherto extended. Dare we now give shelter to political refugees who may be followers of this pernicious creed?-. . . You might have imperiled the good relations between this country and the great American republic with whom His Majesty is allied . . . It is not so much for punishment...
Clement Attlee's new cabinet was scarcely 24 hours old before one of its members was under heavy attack from Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard and his morning Daily Express. The object of Beaverbrook's wrath was bright, balding John Strachey, 48, whom Attlee had just promoted from Minister of Food to Secretary of State for War. The Standard called Strachey "an avowed Communist [who] has never publicly retracted his belief in Communism." The attack touched an exposed nerve: the British public has been shocked by the laxity of military intelligence services disclosed by the espionage...
...theory from geological evidence. He depends mostly upon the mythologies of the world's ancient and not-so-ancient peoples, quoting Hindus, Greeks, Babylonians, Peruvians, Aztecs, Mayas, Chinese and Polynesians. None of these sources speak clearly to back him up. No myth, for instance, describes an object nearly as big as the earth which came close enough to graze it. The myths speak cryptically, and Dr. Velikovsky thinks that that is probably because folks were gagged by "collective amnesia...
Toward the East. Some scientists have a sneaking suspicion that Velikovsky is pulling their legs. No object, however large, that barely grazed the earth could materially affect its period of revolution. And if the sun did literally "stand still upon Gibeon"-i.e., if the earth suddenly stopped turning-no human being would have lived to tell about it. Every loose object on earth, including Joshua, the oceans and the atmosphere, would have continued the normal rotating movement, and thus taken off toward the east faster than the speed of sound. Velikovsky seems to be aware of some of these difficulties...
...organizations are urging the President to add official weight of the University to the fight against two clauses which they object to in the loyalty oath...