Word: outgrowths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formerly the Reactionary Club, its purpose is "to combat all forms of liberalism, progressive Republicanism and moderate conservatism." The spokesman denied that it is an outgrowth of the NCC minority, adding that Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '28, professor of History, has been suggested as adviser...
...years of waiting for a peaceful end to the partition of their country, the Irish from time to time turn to thoughts of violence. When they do, they think of the Irish Republican Army, an outgrowth of the Sinn Fein movement, which has a romantic place in the Irish imagination. Last week, after the I.R.A.'s audacious raid on a British army barracks just 40 miles west of London, the thoughts grew bolder. "This will bring recruits by the dozen," predicted one Irish observer...
Convened by the United Nations as an outgrowth of President Eisenhower's dramatic atoms-for-peace proposal of 1953, the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy has brought together 1,200 scientists from 72 nations, collected for all to see and hear just about everything mankind knows about non-military aspects of nuclear energy...
...widespread insecurity, Americans have become acutely aware of the complex demands of national security, and increasingly fearful that many historic American attitudes may no longer be adequate for the present day. The problem of the informer has arisen in new and vivid forms since the war, largely as an outgrowth of the intensive search for subversion of recent years...
...effort to stiffen its academic program, Yale has recently adopted a new plan for its arts and sciences curriculum. The program is an outgrowth of a report made in 1953 by President A. Whitney Griswold, stressing the importance of greater student interest in academic work...